Coming soon! Kick the Poetry Can’ts
Much to the joy of poets and poetry lovers everywhere, national poetry month begins April 1st. For the last few years I’ve been writing a poem a day for National Poetry month. One year it was haiku about my native garden. The next it was poems about the father I never knew. And last year it was about some of the things I learned about myself during a month of play. I love the pressure of coming up with a new poem every day, much like the pressure of the recent March Poetry madness, though this time I’m not in competition with anyone. When I was pondering a topic for this year I was thinking about how I am often asked how I go about teaching poetry to incarcerated teens. I decided to spend the 30 days in April sharing the various ways I teach poetry, with exercises that I will do and post and invite readers to play along.
So you’ll still get a poem a day from me. But you’ll also get the chance to write a poem a day yourself and get support along the way. Teachers and parents who homeschool their children will learn some fun ways to include poetry into your classroom.
I hope you’ll all join in the fun. See you back here on Sunday where you KICK THE POETRY CAN’TS.
Original art by Susan Taylor Brown
Sounds like a great month, a wonderful way to share and grow as a poet. Thanks, Susan, in advance!
Thanks, Janet. I hope you’ll pop around and play if you have some time.