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Poetry Friday: Poetry Project Update
Irene is hosting over at Live Your Poem. Check out the roundup there. Poetry Month Project Update I’m 11 days in to my April Poetry Project. This project is a collection of poems I started at Highlights last summer. When I was there, I mostly tried to figure out…
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Progressive Poem Day 10
April is a time for poetry, and I love being a part of the Poetry Friday Progressive Poem. Last week I had students write a collaborative poem—each poet writing their own lines. They came up with some interesting ones. Collaboration can be such a catalyst for creativity. Here…
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Progressive Poem is Here!
I’m excited to be a part of the Poetry Friday Progressive Poem, where each day in April, someone new adds a new line—or in this year’s case, a new couplet. cradled in stars, our planet sleeps,clinging to tender dreams of peacesister moon watches from afar, singing lunar lullabies…
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Poetry Friday: More Poetry Odds and Ends
Karen Edmisten is hosting today, so head over there for the complete roundup. Poetry Odds and Ends It’s Poetry Month and I’ve been doing poetry stuff all week! I’ve been at Highlights at a poetry workshop with Irene Latham and Charles Waters. Fellow Poetry Friday poets (and…
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Progressive Poem Day 18
Progressive Poem 2023 Each year the Poetry Friday community puts together a kidlit progressive poem. Each day, someone new adds a line. Rules from Mary Lee Hahn’s blog. She posted on Day 1. The rules are few: “The poem will be passing from blog to blog with each…
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Poetry Friday: May 6, 2022
Jama is our host for Poetry Friday this week. Hop on over there to see this week’s post. Haiku of the Week salamander eggs jellied and gelled together in the vernal pond –Photo and haiku by Marcie Flinchum Atkins Progressive Poem For Poetry Month in April, I joined the…
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Progressive Poem 2022
I’m the next person in the Progressive Poem journey this month. Each day someone else adds a line to the poem. This year’s poem consists of lines from other books and songs. I had another line picked out, and then I did some later reading yesterday and changed my…
