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Monday, July 25, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Ovillejo

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The ovillejo is a Spanish poetic form made popular by Miguel de Cervantes. It is a 10-line poem composed of 3 rhyming couplets and a final ...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Golden Shovel

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I know, it's Tuesday again. I'll just chalk my lateness up to my summer schedule. I've been thinking a bit about this excerpt ...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Englyn cyrch

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If orange is the new black, then Tuesday is the new Monday! My apologies for failing to post yesterday. I got caught up in the end of summer...
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Monday, July 04, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Diatelle

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I've been searching a bit online for some "new" and different poetry forms. I discovered a site,  The Writer's & Poetr...
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Friday, July 01, 2016

Poetry Seven Write "In the Style Of" ... Kay Ryan

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Sigh ... I really procrastinated this month and now I'm not so happy with my poem. I guess that's alright. My energy has been focuse...
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Monday, June 27, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Climbing Rhyme

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Climbing Rhyme  is a form of Burmese poetry containing a repeated sequence of 3 internally-rhymed lines consisting of 4 syllables each. Sin...
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Monday, June 20, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Septercet

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Today's form comes from the mind of Jane Yolen. A septercet is her newly invented form, a modified tercet. An actual tercet is composed ...
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Monday, June 13, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Sonnet (Italian Form)

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In my estimation, there is never a bad time for a sonnet. Here's a great example. Since I normally write Shakespearian sonnets, I ...
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Friday, June 10, 2016

Poetry Friday - Summer

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Today I'm sharing a poem by Amy Lowell. Summer by Amy Lowell Some men there are who find in nature all Their inspiration, hers the...
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Monday, June 06, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Luc Bat

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The Luc Bat is a Vietnamese form with a repeating rhyme scheme and lines of six and eight syllables. The rhyme scheme looks like this. xx...
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Friday, June 03, 2016

Poetry Seven and Mary Pownall's Harpy

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This month the poetry gang wrote poems to photos taken by Tanita of Mary Pownall's sculpture The Harpy Calaeno . Artwork: The Har...
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Monday, May 23, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Triversen

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The triversen ("triple verse sentence") is a verse form invented by William Carlos Williams. Each stanza is composed of a single ...
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Monday, May 16, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Wayra

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The Wayra is a Latin American verse from popular in Peru and Bolivia. It is a short syllabic verse that follows these guidelines: a penta...
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Monday, May 09, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Akshar-Mala

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Akshar-Mala is an Indian poetic form in which the initial letters of each line are in alphabetical order. There are no other requirements f...
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Saturday, May 07, 2016

Book Review - California, the Magic Island

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California, the Magic Island , written and illustrated by Doug Hansen, is a book that every California teacher should have on his/her book...
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Friday, May 06, 2016

Poetry Seven Write Tritinas

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This month the Poetry Seven crew wrote in the form of the tritina . The tritina is composed of 3 tercets and a final line (envoi) that stand...
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Thursday, May 05, 2016

You Can Fly with the Weatherfords

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When I was young and learned my father served in the Naval Air Corps during WWII, I became a voracious reader of anything and everything abo...
Monday, May 02, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Ae freslige

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Today I'm sharing a form known as ae freslige . Some say it's Irish, others Celtic. Some spell it ae freslige, other ae freslighe. T...
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Saturday, April 30, 2016

NPM Celebrations - National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day

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April 30th is  National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day . This day was created to raise awareness of the thousands of pets living in shelters that...
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Friday, April 29, 2016

NPM Celebrations - Arbor Day

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April 29th is  Arbor Day , a day dedicated annually to public tree-planting in the US, Australia, and other countries. In the United State...