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Online Launch Party and #NationalPoetryMonth Roundup

April 30, 2020 By Laura

Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) It’s May! Hooray! I want to share two things with you. First up, I’d like to invite you to the online launch party for Secrets of the Loon. It’s Monday, May 4 at 3 pm Central Time on Facebook, and I’d love to see lots […]

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Day 30: The Finish Line (#NationalPoetryMonth2020)

April 30, 2020 By Laura

Wow. Does anyone else who wrote and posted poems daily feel as exhausted as I do? I hope I’m not the only one. Congratulations, poets! We made it! (Though we might not look as sleek and graceful as this guy.)

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Day 29: A Special Day? (#NationalPoetryMonth2020)

April 29, 2020 By Laura

Well, it’s a strange time to launch a book, isn’t it? I’ll be honest. Book publication days are typically mostly normal work days for me, anyway. Because a book launch party doesn’t usually happen on the publication day itself, the day itself is kind of anti-climactic, you know? But we usually go out for a […]

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Day 28: Secrets of the Loon Book Birthday (#NationalPoetryMonth2020)

April 28, 2020 By Laura

Whee! It’s the book birthday for Secrets of the Loon (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2020)! So for today’s poem, I’m sharing the opening quatrain of this rhyming picture book. I’m thrilled to welcome this book into the world. Loons are fascinating, and I think this loon chick’s survival story will inspire readers. Also, Jena Benton […]

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Day 27: Today I Took a Walk (#NationalPoetryMonth2020)

April 27, 2020 By Laura

Hi, poetry friends! It’s the final stretch of Poetry Month! I actually took this walk and wrote this poem Saturday morning, but I had other poems to share the past couple of days. I’m writing LOTS of poetry this month–how about you? (And teachers, I added a bunch of single-poem #readalouds to my readalouds page!) […]

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Day 26: A Bridal Shower Equation Poem: (#NationalPoetryMonth2020)

April 26, 2020 By Laura

Not all my poems are based on real life. My warbler poem last Friday? I just needed a specific bird, that’s all. But this one is definitely real life. Our older daughter’s tropical-themed bridal shower happened on Zoom yesterday. And you know what? It was good. :>)   Like most everybody else, I’m experiencing lots […]

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Day 25: Seeing Mom Today (#NationalPoetryMonth2020)

April 25, 2020 By Laura

April is drawing to a close. Are you exhausted? I am! But I’m also grateful for the intense whirlwind of creating poems daily (besides just the book project I’m working on). Now that Laura Shovan’s awesome #WaterPoemProject is over, I’m looking around, seeing which other prompts catch my eye. Goodness knows there are tons of […]

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Day 24: Daily Party – a Skinny Poem [#NationalPoetryMonth2020]

April 23, 2020 By Laura

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) So, this month, our Poetry Princess challenge was a skinny poem with the theme or spring or looking ahead. I love skinnys…sometimes. They’re one of those forms that for me either work right away…or don’t work at all. I wrote one earlier this […]

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Day 23: These Are the Hands (#NationalPoetryMonth2020)

April 23, 2020 By Laura

Today’s poem comes from a prompt at Michelle Heidenrich Barnes’ Today’s Little Ditty. This is from the first week of April, and I’m just finally getting around to it…better late than never? I’m also finally reading Michelle’s The Best of Today’s Little Ditty 2017-2018 anthology, and it’s lovely. And her posts have made me want […]

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Day 22: Staying Calm in a Storm, by a Sea Goddess (#NationalPoetryMonth2020)

April 22, 2020 By Laura

It’s the final #waterpoemproject poem. Thank you, Laura Shovan and all the contributing prompt writers! Like most everybody else, I’m experiencing lots of upheavals lately! I have no huge National Poetry Month plans–just hoping to share an imagepoem here each day (or as often as I can). I’m participating in Laura Shovan’s awesome #WaterPoemProject the […]

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