This Spring, I will be teaching in a fifth-grade classroom! For poetry month, I am challenging myself to write one poem each day on a different geographical location — where I have not visited or lived. Which means I will need to do some cursory research (search engines, be warned!), and thinking. Thirty countries in […]
Tag: April
Random poems in advance…
This is an edited version, I wrote this originally Tuesday night, for posting Wednesday, and wasn’t awake enough to edit for “time sense” — thanks for being patient! Next month (tomorrow) begins national poetry month. On the drive home from school Tuesday it hailed, snowed, rained, sleeted and was generally stormy. Somehow, poetry felt like […]
A Poem A Day
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 […]