Poetry Friday: Call for Roundup Hosts
It’s that time again. Six months have passed since last we queued up to host the Poetry Friday roundups.What is the Poetry Friday roundup? A gathering of links to posts featuring original or shared poems, or reviews of poetry books. A carnival of poetry posts. Here is an explanation that Rene LaTulippe shared on her…
Poetry Friday: No Vacancy
No Vacancy (A Sudoku Poem) Molly’s challenge/invitation for the Inklings this month was to channel the “dazzle of color that arrives in spring after months and months of blues and whites and grays.” She gave us a couple of mentor poems, but when I saw this Sudoku poem in the Rattle newsletter, I knew I…
Poetry Friday: Ghazal for the Lake
. The Poetry Sisters challenge for this month was to write a ghazal. Challenge is the right word! I had a bit of a head start because the Inklings wrote ghazals back in 2021 and I had both the experience of juggling all the rules of ghazals AND an abandoned draft to work with. Good…
Poetry Friday: How to Write a Poem
In the past two weeks, this book has done good work in the world. (Okay, in all fairness…has helped ME do good work in the world!) I’m a once-a-week Reading Specialist at each of the three sites of our community resource center’s after school program. The first week of May, we had a whole-group read…
Poetry Friday: Factotum
. Thank you, fellow Inkling, Linda Mitchell, for this month’s prompt which gave me permission to write an almost-definito for a word I’d been saving since mid-March: . You can see what the other Inklings came up with here: Linda @A Word EdgewiseHeidi @my juicy little universeMolly @Nix the Comfort ZoneCatherine @Reading to the CoreMargaret…
My Powerful Hair
My Powerful Hairby Carole Lindstromillustrated by Steph LittlebirdAbrams Books, 2023review copy from the public library Once upon a time, I wrote a book about the power of read aloud. One of the stories in that book was about the time when I read aloud The Watsons Go To Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis. Our exploration…
Twenty Questions
Twenty Questionsby Mac Barnettillustrated by Christian RobinsonPenguin Random House, 2023review copy from the public library While we’re on the subject of questions (see previous post), you need this book in your classroom and/or life. The text of this book is, indeed, composed of twenty questions. (I counted.) The first is very literal. You can use…
Poetry Friday: In the Style of Neruda
Write a poem in the style of Neruda. The urge to skip this month’s Poetry Sisters challenge was strong. I went to last Sunday’s zoom meeting with an idea for a way to come to this challenge through the back door. I was also hoping for a Cliffs Notes version of The Style of Neruda…
The Tree and the River
The Tree and the Riverby Aaron BeckerPenguin Random House, 2023review copy from the public libraryFull disclosure: I am NOT the Mary Lee to whom the book is dedicated! This is a GORGEOUS wordless picture book. If it feels like Becker is painting from life, it might be because, according to the back flap, “To prepare…
Poetry Friday: Shade
. Happy Poetry Friday! Happy Poetry Month! Happy Earth Day Eve! Karen has this week’s Poetry Friday Roundup at Karen Edmisten*. Everything might be falling into place with the Progressive Poem. Sarah Grace has today’s line.
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