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5 Sumptuously Fun Ways to Spend Poet in a Cupcake Day!

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

It’s Poet in a Cupcake Day! Check out our fun ideas for celebrating, with real cupcakes or a fun printable. Both go wonderfully with our cut n’ color poets.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to School Week

Reading in the Wild: March’s Pages

By Megan Willome 10 Comments

Come learn the secrets of being a wild reader. Or just share your March pages. Megan Willome leads the way, with her March good reads.

Filed Under: Blog, Literacy for Life, Reading in the Wild

Bring in the Cupcakes! It’s Take Your Poet to School Week

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Poet in a Cupcake Day Cover

It’s Take Your Poet to School Week! Celebrate with themes such as Talk Like a Poet Day, Poet in Your Math Book Day, and of course, sweetest of all, our new public day: Poet in a Cupcake Day!

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Poetry, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to School Week

Birthdays & Birthstones Poetry Prompt: Birth Day

By Kortney Garrison 30 Comments

Baby Lambs with Mother

Are there family stories about the day of your arrival, a received mythology that shapes you? Come write poetry about the unopened gift of your birth.

Filed Under: Birthdays and Birth Stones, Blog, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writing prompts

By Hand: Pure Play

By Megan Willome 7 Comments

By Hand is a monthly prompt focused on freeing our words by using our hands. This month, we’re exploring the idea of pure play with Megan Willome.

Filed Under: Blog, By Hand, Music, writing prompts

A Publishing Opportunity for Our Patrons

By T.S. Poetry

Gorgeous Butterfly Ecochallenge

This National Poetry Month, we’re going to combine our 30 Days of poem-making with another organization’s effort: The Drawdown EcoChallenge. Here’s how to participate—and maybe get published.

Filed Under: Blog, Drawdown, National Poetry Month, Patron Publishing Opportunties, poetry prompt, writing prompt, writing prompts

Take Your Poet to School Week: Shel Silverstein

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Shel Silverstein Take Your Poet to School

Celebrate Take Your Poet to School Week “where the sidewalk ends.” Shel Silverstein makes his debut for next week’s big event.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Poetry, poetry teaching resources, Shel Silverstein, Take Your Poet to School Week

Form It: Little Lamb Poetry Prompt

By L.L. Barkat 2 Comments

form it poetry prompt

“Form It” is a poetry prompt that focuses on exploring our topic through form poetry. The prompt includes recommendations for each form’s best use! This time, we’re going to “form” a little lamb. 🙂

Filed Under: Blog, Form It, Lions & Lambs, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompt

The Poetry of Friendship, with Pickles on the Side

By Laura Lynn Brown 24 Comments

Laura Lynn Brown serves Irish soda bread, the last Cara Cara orange, friendship, poetry, and disappearing kosher dills.

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Poems, On Friendship

Take Your Poet to School Week: Mother Goose

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Mother Goose Take Your Poet to School Week Cover

Even the mythical poets are getting in on the fun of Take Your Poet to School Week. Today, Mother Goose hops on a stick and makes her debut.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Poetry, Mother Goose, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to School Week

Take Your Poet to School Week: Ogden Nash

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Cover Ogden Nash

Our preparation for this year’s Take Your Poet to School Week continues with the light and whimsical poems of Ogden Nash.

Filed Under: Blog, Ogden Nash, poetry, Take Your Poet to School Week

Poetry Prompt: Misunderstood Lion

By Heather Eure 1 Comment

misunderstood lion poetry prompt

When you think of lions, do you think of affection? Come learn about the surprising ways of lions and write a roaring good poem.

Filed Under: Blog, Lions & Lambs, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompt

Poetic Earth Month—30 Days, 30 Poems Challenge

By T.S. Poetry 262 Comments

Boy Rock Climbing

This April, join the Tweetspeak Community in a Poetic Earth Month 30 Days, 30 Poems Challenge! With two ways to take the challenge, it’s simple and soul-enriching. Choose one, or mix it up. Then tell the community what you’re doing, and share your poem-ing along the way.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Poetic Earth Month, Poetry Challenge, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

“A pair of star-cross’d lovers:” Romeo & Juliet and Eleanor & Park

By Megan Willome 6 Comments

Did you like “Eleanor & Park”? You’ll love “Romeo & Juliet.” (Or vice versa.)

Filed Under: Blog, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, The Teacher Diaries

Take Your Poet to School: Robert Louis Stevenson

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Robert Louis Stevenson cover

Don’t let the folks with briefcases have all the fun. Join in the brand new celebration of Take Your Poet to School Week with our fun cut ‘n color poets on a stick.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, poetry, Take Your Poet to School Week

Animate: Lions & Lambs Poetry Prompt

By Heather Eure 3 Comments

animate prompt lions lambs

This week’s poetry prompt asks you to become two fabled mammals at odds— lions & lambs. Whether a powerful, shaggy maned lion or a gentle, nursery-rhyme worthy lamb. Join us, animate yourself, and create poetry.

Filed Under: Animate, Blog, Lions & Lambs, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompt

Children’s Book Club: “Roxaboxen”

By Megan Willome 8 Comments

Join our Children’s Book Club as we read “Roxaboxen” by Alice McLerran with Megan Willome as our guide.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Book Club

Reading in the Wild: February’s Pages

By Megan Willome 19 Comments

Come learn the secrets of being a wild reader. Or just share your February pages. Megan Willome leads the way, with her February good reads.

Filed Under: Blog, Literacy for Life, Read, Read for Fun, Reading in the Wild

Poetry Prompt: Behind the Velvet Rope

By Heather Eure 4 Comments

velvet rope poetry prompt

This week we find ourselves on either side of a legendary barrier and consider its significance. Join the line with us as we create poetry about the velvet rope.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Satin & Velvet, writer's group resources, writing prompt

By Hand: Stitching and Coloring

By Megan Willome 29 Comments

By Hand is a monthly prompt focused on freeing our words by using our hands. This month we’re exploring stitching and coloring with Megan Willome as our guide.

Filed Under: Blog, By Hand

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