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Poetry Friday, Week 12: Get Ready for National Poetry Month

3/28/2025

Marcie at Marcie Flinchum Atkins is hosting Poetry Friday. It was exciting to see her new book which I promptly ordered s signed copy. I love her poetry project for April.

I'm planning to write to a prompt a day and also work on completing the revision of my manuscript during poetry month. Here's a sneak peak of the DAY 1 prompt for April 1: CHASE.

National Poetry Month Activities

For National Poetry Month, I am hosting a Pop-up poetry/writing event: Writing for a Shared World of Poetry, Saturday, April 5, 2025. 11 AM-12:30PM (EST), 8 AM-9:30 AM (PST)
I held a writing event in January and it was lovely.
I plan to share prompts, write for a bit, and share.

You can sign up here.
https://forms.gle/t6pxoWdUGhQ5MYrK7

2. Two Interviews: Matt Forest and Shirley Thacker
3. Two Video Fridays, featuring the poetry projects of my TWU students.
4. writing to the prompts below.

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Wordless Wednesday: Week 12

3/26/2025

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Sunday Solace: Week 12

3/23/2025

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Poetry Friday, Week 11: Poem for Spring, National Poetry Month Plans

3/21/2025

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Graphic © Amber Fleek

Rose at Imagine the Possibilities is hosting today and focusing on the joy of spring.
Today is a mish-mash of poetry life.

1. I finished All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson. It's a powerful story of friendship and loss. Watson recently won the CYBILS Poetry Award for Black Girl, You are an Atlas.

2. I am excited to share the poems videos my TWU students have been creating for their midterm for their class. I'll be sharing them on this blog in April.

3. One of my favorite poems that I associate with Martha and spring is
Who Has Seen the Wind?
BY Christina Rossetti

Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.

Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.

4. Susan Blackaby and I are hosting a "Spill the Poetry" Class at my local tea shop, Cup of Tea in April. We'll follow it with a poetry reading on May 3 there.

5. I'll be writing short poems for National Poetry Month using the Verse of Ages Word Prompts (will post below)

6. I'm hosting a Poetry Pop-Up Writing Event on Saturday, April 5, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM EST. See the below link to sign up.

POETRY POP-UP WRITING MEET UP

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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Wordless Wednesday: Week 11

3/19/2025

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Sunday Solace: Week 11

3/16/2025

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Poetry Friday, Week 10: Georgia Heard's Heart Map, Students and an Invitation

3/14/2025

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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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