April is National Poetry Month.
To celebrate, many schools and organizations are sponsoring write-a-thons or special events.
For those of you who follow my quest to actually do something worth doing, well don’t look here! NaPoWriMo begins this Wednesday, and I will be blogging a poem each day (or else). But I won’t be soliciting donations. Instead, I encourage you to find a literacy-promoting organization that speaks to you, and donate a little something. Or volunteer!
Over at the WITS blog, they have created a nifty set of gadgets and gizmos to help you stay connected with their students’ work. Check out the Get Your Poem a Day post. This is an organization I whole-heartedly recommend.
Poets.org has all kinds of nifty ideas as well. I acquired one of their posters to use with the 6th graders I help with… and if you want to see if there’s anything happening locally for you, they have a handy interactive map for the United States!
Oh, and I added (temporarily, it doesn’t really fit) a WITS Poem a Day widget in the sidebar. Enjoy!