Hi there, poets and poetry devourers (yum, yum!)
(l to r):Â April Halprin Wayland, Robyn Hood Black, and Irene Latham cook up poetry from the Poetry Friday Anthologies for a workshop at the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. (See Publishers Weekly)
(l to r):Â April Halprin Wayland, Robyn Hood Black, and Irene Latham cook up poetry from the Poetry Friday Anthologies for a workshop at the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. (See Publishers Weekly)
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I’m so hungry for poetry, I’ve chomped away the top of this logo:
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Whoa! Check out Lane Fredrickson’s generous and hilarious site on “everything you need to know to write with rhyme and meter”–it’s fabulous! Here’s your class, folks. Just hunker down and read what Lane is giving all of us for free. (Thanks to poet and author Denise Doyne for pointing out Lane’s site!)
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To your right are links to my poems for the month of April in Poem-A-Day Challenges. In some poems I’ve also included poetry prompts so you can write your own poem…or use them in a lesson plan.
To your right are links to my poems for the month of April in Poem-A-Day Challenges. In some poems I’ve also included poetry prompts so you can write your own poem…or use them in a lesson plan.
In 2013, the poems are “Ruff Drafts,” rough drafts of poems about dogs, and in 2012, all the poems are dog poems, too…followed by a poetry prompt.
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Peruse these interviews…I usually give a writing tip or exercise.
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And here are some handy-dandy POETRY REMINDERS from WHEN YOU ARE ALONE/IT KEEPS YOU CAPONEÂ by my mentor, Myra Cohn Livingston (emphasis is mine):
- Poetry doesn’t have to rhyme.
- Anything in the world can be the subject of a poem.
- You can’t write a meaningful poem without feeling strongly about it.
- You don’t have to worry about spelling until after your poem is written and you want to share it.
- Poetry is more than a series of facts or statements.
- Word pictures are the art of poetry.
- Every word counts in poetry.
- Poetry is imagination and imagery.
- You can communicate an idea or feeling by comparing two things.
- Poetry is “the best choice of words.”
- Rhyme is a tool of poetry to be used properly, not artificially.
- Punctuation is for the purpose of making a poem easier to read.
You, too, can make yourself a poet’s hat!
See also Myra’s marvelous book, POEM-MAKING.
This book is written for perhaps a ten-year-old reading level—perfect for me!