Inspiration: Sometimes Saturdays make us feel a greater sense of energy and hope knowing the weekend is here. Let’s have some fun rounding out our first week of poems with some super-inspired verses. Write a poem about a superhero coming to your house and confronting …
Inspiration: Write about smells that you love, hate, remind you of this or that, give you hope or make you sad. Of course, write about anything on your mind or in your heart today. Add your poem to the comments below. I love the smell of …
Inspiration (not that you need it): A knock on the door. Perhaps today’s poem can tell about a visitor who literally knocked on your door (friend, neighbor, family, stranger), or perhaps you will imagine the things and people who knock on the figurative doors in …
Inspiration (not that you need it): What do you carry? In a day, in our life, we carry a great many things; write a poem about the things you carry (or do not carry). These can be concrete objects or more abstract things like emotions or …
Today’s inspiration: What if children ruled the world? Write a poem that imagines this scenario? Consider making this phrase repeat two or three times in the poem. Post your poem in the comment section below. Of course, you may write about anything you wish.
Welcome to day one! Today’s inspiration: What is the best part of you? Write a descriptive poem about your favorite part of you. Here are a few bullet points to get you started. describe what your best part looks like — size, color, shape, texture …
The 30 Poems Celebration begins April 1st! Let’s celebrate together all that poetry does for our hearts, minds, and humanity. This month-long celebration is all about helping people write poems in a supportive, virtual space. Anyone can participate — life-long poets, new-to-the-craft poets, rhymers, free-versers, musings-writers. …
I could feel the fever spiking. And my blood was simmering. It was the week before spring break, and the symptoms of cabin fever among the students were spreading. They’d submitted their final portfolios –letters to parents with hyperlinks to all their learning for the past …
By Brian Charest, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Redlands, School of Education Last week, we saw firsthand the incredible democratic potential and power of civic engagement. Hundreds of thousands of students across the country, in places like Los Angeles and Chicago, from New York to Parkland, and …
About two months ago, I began the new year with my junior high English students in not setting resolutions — those never seem to work well — but by choosing one word to help us change, improve, and be, well, better in the new year– all …