Tag: poetry

Mother’s Day, Poetry, and Technology

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…

Thinking again about poetry

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…

April is Poetry Month

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…