A very special thank you to our February Open Write hosts: Donnetta, Stacey, Britt, Amber, and Seana. We are so grateful for your generosity of time and heart in creating these prompts for us and taking good care of our words. We will see you …
Inhabiting Life More Fully
This is the Open Write, a place for educators to nurture their writing lives and to advocate for writing poetry in community. We gather every month for five days and daily in April — no sign-ups, no fees, no commitments. Come and go as you …
Healing Hurts
This is the Open Write, a place for educators to nurture their writing lives and to advocate for writing poetry in community. We gather every month and daily in April — no sign-ups, no fees, no commitments. Come and go as you please. All that …
Hope Lies Within
This is the Open Write, a place for educators to nurture their writing lives and to advocate for writing poetry in community. We gather every month for five days and daily in April — no sign-ups, no fees, no commitments. Come and go as you …
Show Your Love
This is the Open Write, a place for educators to nurture their writing lives and to advocate for writing poetry in community. We gather every month for five days and daily in April — no sign-ups, no fees, no commitments. Come and go as you …
This is the Year
A very special “thank you” to the educators who hosted this January’s Open Write out of pure generosity. We deeply appreciate our volunteer hosts and the care they take in responding to our poems. Thank you, Shaun, Gayle, Glenda, Erica, and Jessica. Please join us …
Until I Discovered
Our Host: Erica Johnson Erica lives in the suburbs of Little Rock, but teaches in the rural town of Vilonia, Arkansas. She has dedicated thirteen years to helping high school students excel in Advanced and College level English courses. Not only does Erica work with …
How Embarrassing!
Our Host Glenda retired from full-time teaching in 2019 after a 38 year career and is now substitute teaching in her district. In addition to being a dog and cat mom, Glenda loves to travel and is a doting grandmother to Ezra, a budding reader …
KonMarie: the 2025 Edition
Our Host: Gayle Sands Gayle lives in Taneytown, MD. She quickly de-retired after her exit from 27 years of teaching middle-school English, Today, she supervises secondary education practicum students for McDaniel College. When not supervising, she wrangles her curmudgeonly husband and growing menagerie. The pet …
Are You Down?
As we prepare to begin our January Open Write—a time for teachers to come together over five days to nurture our writing lives, witness one another’s words, and gather ideas to support student writers—we want to take a moment to hold our California teachers and …