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Mother’s Day, Poetry, and Technology

By on April 25, 2011 in Learning Beyond the Classroom, poetry, writing

Take a moment to write your mother a hand-scribed note, suggests The Academy of American Poets (Poets.org). To help you, they’ve created six lovely blank note cards (pdf files to print). In addition, you can choose from a nice array of Mother’s Day appropriate excerpts from poems to include as an epigram to get you started. [...]

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Thinking again about poetry

By on April 12, 2010 in School Notes

Thanks, in particular, to Poets.org, National Poetry Month is an easy thing for teachers to add to their curriculum or school culture. It’s not always easy to get students to see value in poems, but if they can like a few poems, we’ve made some progress. Consider also what poem you might carry in your [...]

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April is Poetry Month

By on March 30, 2008 in School Notes

Poetry is one of my joys and it seems that I don’t enjoy it as much as I wish I could. I listen to Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac on my iPod, but inconsistently. I wish I could find a way to integrate poetry into my every day life. I am glad for National Poetry Month [...]

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