Laura Purdie Salas

Writing the World for Kids

You are here: Home / Archives for Laura’s poems

Three Days of Poetry at Isanti Intermediate School [Poetry Friday]

By 8 Comments

Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Last week, I was honored to spend three days with 4th and 5th graders playing with poetry. We wrote 15 Words or Less Poems, Paint Chip Poems, Things To Do If You Are… Poems, I Am Poems, Found Poems (using pages from National Geographic that […]

Tagged With: , ,

My Poems at the TLA Poetry Round Up #PoetryFriday

By

Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to attend the Texas Library Association conference in Austin to take part in Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong’s awesome Poetry Round Up. What a great event! I’m sharing the clip of the poems I read here: And […]

Tagged With: , , , , , , , ,

Introducing Lion of the Sky #PoetryFriday

By

  lie down in whiteness     kick and SWISH and wave your arms            give me winter wings                                        –Laura Purdie Salas, from Lion of the Sky I’m so excited about this book, my third and final poetry collection of the spring! If you’d like to learn […]

Tagged With: , , , , ,

Sky Love Story – an Anagram Poem [Poetry Friday]

By

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) We were scrambling for our form this month, and Tricia suggested anagram poems. She was inspired by Linda Baie’s lovely idea and poem here. As a theme, we picked weather or umbrellas or natural cycles. I wrote my poem mostly on a flight […]

Tagged With: , , , , , ,

Dreamy #PoetryFriday

By

Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I want to share one more poem from In the Middle of the Night, plus ask y’all a favor. Here’s the poem, one of the few unrhyming ones in the collection. I just love acrostics, and I wrote this poem after my editor, Rebecca Davis, […]

Tagged With: , , , , ,

Dirty Clothes Do-Si-Do [Poetry Friday]

By

Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) My newest poetry collection, In the Middle of the Night: Poems from a Wide-Awake House! (click the title to see my post last week introducing the book) is here! Thank you to all of the fabulous bloggers and educators and kidlit lovers who have hosted […]

Tagged With: , ,

Introducing In the Middle of the Night! #PoetryFriday

By

Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) On Tuesday, March 12, my second spring title, In the Middle of the Night: Poems from a Wide-Awake House, comes out. This beautiful book from Wordsong (where many of my very favorite poets have published amazing books over the years) explores the mischief that our […]

Tagged With: , , , ,

Floor Lamp Waits [Poetry Friday]

By

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Well, I dropped the ball on this one. This month, we Poetry Princesses wrote a mask poem. This one was MY choice! And yet, I didn’t get to it until this week. It’s funny how we schedule things in the future, picturing them […]

Tagged With: , , , , ,

Write an Equation Poem? [Poetry Friday]

By

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Well, I bet you came here expecting to READ a poem, but I’m going to ask you to write one. A fast one! A simple one! This past Tuesday, my newest book came out, Snowman-Cold=Puddle: Spring Equations (illus by Micha Archer, Charlesbridge). I’m […]

Tagged With: , , , ,

Lunch in a Refugee Reception Centre [Poetry Friday]

By

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This month, Tanita came up with our challenge: a poem in the style of Marilyn Nelson’s “Minor Miracle,” about a small, miraculous thing you have seen or known. I’ll wait here while you read Marilyn’s stunning poem. All finished? So, although I’ve tried […]

Tagged With: , , , , , ,