 Graphic © Amber Fleek
Janice at Salt City Verse has a lot of poetry goodies to share on her blog. I concur with her that Laura Shovan's February poetry challenge kept me writing all month. The prompts shared by the group took me in surprising places.
On Wednesday, I was enjoying morning coffee and my former school texted me, 'can you sub, it's an emergency?" It was a day that I didn't have plans and it worked out to jump in. The plans were emergency written with the topic "art/writing". I hadn't thought to bring any poetry lessons. I went to Georgia Heard's website and perused the Heartmaps and decided to do the belonging heart. 
Start of National Poetry Writing Month with a Write-In
On April 5, 2025, you're invited to write with me 11:00 AM-12:30 PM EST.
A group of us gathered on January 18, 2025 and had a wonderful time writing and sharing. If you want to join me on April 5, you can sign up here: Writing for a Shared Poetry World
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Thanks to Karen at Karen Edmisten* for hosting Poetry Friday this week. She is sharing an Ellen Bass poem that had me at "the smell of grated ginger."
This week, I subbed for in a fifth grade class for my friend who was a teacher librarian and was moved into the classroom as a result of the district getting rid of the library positions. She has a fabulous class. She left me a Joyce Sidman unit of poetry for the week. So I read:
When In Doubt When in doubt. take a nap. Even at 10 in the morning. When in doubt eat the dark chocolate stashed in the drawer labeled “when in doubt”. When in doubt go outside at night. Look for the newest stars. Name them. When in doubt reread letters you’ve saved in a box. It’s your history. When in doubt talk to the neighborhood crow. The one who brings you trinkets. When in doubt drive to the coast. Count the waves. When in doubt sip tea at your local tea shop. Read the tea leaves. When in doubt text your friends. Let them know they’re loved. © Jone Rush MacCulloch The class wrote poems in response to Night Emperor and This is Just to Say. In the Padlet, you will also see my "This is Just to Say" poem, regarding teaching fractions in math this week. I am so hopeless in teaching math!!
Thanks to Jama at Jama's Alphabet Soup for hosting our poetry posts.
First of all, I want to say that I am holding in my heart and prayers all those who live on the east coast and have been affected by Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton. Especially my poet friends. It was good to see Jan’s post. Last week, I subbed in two classrooms and was excited to once again share Georgia Heard's book, Boom! Bellow! Bleat! as a mentor text. With fourth grade, we did animals but in fifth grade, I gave the option to create a "spooky animal" like a "Pumpkinoctopus". It's evident that students had fun with these. Mrs. Martin's Fourth GradersMrs. Standish's Fifth Grade © Graphic by Amber Fleek
Buffy at Buffy Silverman is rounding up the Poetry Friday community. She has some amazing photos of insects that serve as great poetry prompts. Thank you, Buffy.
Mark your calendars for June 30. Irene Latham will be hosting Roundup. She’s doing a “Moon in June” theme. So find your favorite moon poem (yours or someone else’s) or maybe a memory or photo to share. 
I love when I can guest teach in a class and teach poetry. Last week, I was able to share Georgia Heard's fabulous book, Boom! Bellow! Bleat!: Animal Poems for Two or More Voices. Mr. Canning's class then selected their favorite animals and wrote animal sound poems and illustrate them. I am really excited as I am guest teaching in their room tomorrow and will share this blog post with them.
 Graphic by Amber Fleek Bridget at wee words for wee ones is celebrating the first anniversary of her poetry collection, 10.10 Poetry Anthology: Celebrating 10 in 10 Different Ways. As part of the recent Georgia Heard's and Rebecca Kai Dotlich's class, we were encouraged to write a "found" poem, using Georgia's book, The Arrow Finds Its Mark: A Book of Found Poems, as a mentor text. What I love about this book, is the poetry isn't just from other poems. I went in search of texts to find a found poem. I had a lot of choices and my head was swirling with possibilities. I settled on Breath Prayer: an ancient practice for the Everyday Sacred by Christine Valters Paintner. Painter is someone I have been reading since returning from my trip to Ireland and I have there's a lot to explore at Abbey of the Arts. The passage I selected was from her chapter, "Morning Coffee or Tea."  Starting the morning with tea (usually green) is very much my daily routine. I am doing a deep dive into found poetry. How do you make it your own with borrowed lines? Can you mix found lines with borrowed lines? so many questions. NEXT WEEK: I AM HOSTING POETRY FRIDAY.
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