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Sevenling, A Poem with a Twist

Our Host: Leilya Pitre Leilya lives in Ponchatoula, LA, a small town celebrated for its strawberries. She teaches and coordinates the English Education Program at Southeastern Louisiana University. She strives to prepare caring, competent, and effective teachers. An editor and contributing author of Where Stars …

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Ecopoetry PostScripts

Welcome to Day 2 of the June Open Write. If you have written with us before, welcome back. If you are joining us for the first time, you are in the kind, capable hands of today’s host, so just read the prompt below and then, …

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What about your friends?

Welcome to Day 1 of the June Open Write. If you have written with us before, welcome back. If you are joining us for the first time, you are in the kind, capable hands of today’s host, so just read the prompt below and then, …

Thirty Thanks

Sarah lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma with her partner Dan who likes to ask, “What did you write about today?” She was a teacher of readers and writers in junior high for 15 years before making her way into teacher education at Oklahoma State University. Sarah …

Rewrite, Redo

Inspiration Process Write Resources I could tell you that I’m a high school English teacher in Michigan, and that, I guess, is true enough, but, just now, I’d really rather strive – as Hemingway would say – to write “one true sentence” about myself: I’m …

Come, Join My Reality

Inspiration Process Write Resources Amber lives in Grove, Oklahoma where she teaches English Language Arts at Grove High School. She serves as the sponsor for International Club: this past summer, Amber traveled with students on adventures across Panama; and this upcoming summer they will go …

Place Tells Me to Be

Inspiration Process Write Resources Chea lives in Temple, Texas where she teaches remotely at Purdue University. She primarily teaches pedagogy courses for mixed content areas but tries to sneak poetry and young adult literature in there wherever she can. She is obsessed with how place …

Borrowed Lines

Inspiration Process Write Resources Donnetta Norris is a 2nd grade teacher in Arlington, TX. She has facilitated workshops with TeachWrite, LLC. and continues to host a weekly Time To Write writing group session with TeachWrite. She is also a guest blogger with Teach Better Team. …

Genetic Cinquains

Inspiration Process Write Resources Jessica lives in Conway, Arkansas, and is an Alternative Learning Environment Teacher/Special Education Teacher in Morrilton, Arkansas at Southern Christian Children’s Home. One of the many passions in her life is advocacy for appropriate, educational, and functional services and programs for …

Forensic Poetry

Inspiration Process Write Resources Our Host today is Susie Morice, from St. Louis, Missouri where she taught in the classroom for thirty years and then for another twenty consulted, wrote, and edited educational publications, focusing on leadership in education. The National Writing Project, Gateway Writing …