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Sunday, April 03, 2016

NPM Celebrations - National Frog Month

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April is National Frog Month. Found on every continent, frogs and toads (which are just a type of frog) are amphibians belonging to the or...
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Saturday, April 02, 2016

NPM Celebrations - Jazz Appreciation Month

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April is Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM). This monthly celebration was created at the Smithsonian's  National Museum of American Histor...
Friday, April 01, 2016

Poetry Seven Write Ekphrastic Poems

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This month the poetry gang wrote poems to images selected by Laura. She shared two images from the frescos that adorn the ceiling of the Fou...
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NPM Celebrations - April Fool's Day

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April 1st is April Fool's Day. This day of trickery, also known as All Fools' Day, has been celebrated in different cultures for a...
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Monday, March 28, 2016

Housekeeping and NPM

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I'm looking at the calendar and am excited that this Friday finally ushers in National Poetry Month! I've been doing a bit of hous...

Monday Poetry Stretch - Opposites

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In the last few weeks I've spent some time reading the book MORE OPPOSITES (1991) by Richard Wilbur. Here's a bit of info from the...
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Monday, March 21, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Spring Apostrophe

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Spring ushered itself in with a bit of sun and cold today. I'm feeling the need to write simply about my second favorite season of the y...
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Monday, March 14, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Breakfast of the Birds

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Last Monday I spent part of the day at the National Museum of Women in the Arts . It was pretty amazing to see the range of works by women. ...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2016

National Poetry Month - Just Around the Corner

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Poetry lovers, start your engines ... I'm revving up for next month's kickoff of my  National Poetry Month  project. Inspired...
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Normal Norman - Riding the Blog Tour Train

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Normal Norman , written by Tara Lazar and illustrated by S. britt, is a study in normalcy ... or not. I hear that word normal a lot, and i...
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Monday, March 07, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Arte Mayor

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I made an impromptu visit to DC to spend a few quality hours with my sister, so today I'm sliding in just under the wire with this week...
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Friday, March 04, 2016

Poetry Seven Write Sedoka

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We had a whole month (albeit a shorter one) to write sedoka. For some reason I couldn't get going on this one, and really struggled to f...
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Monday, February 29, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Pregunta

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The  pregunta  (pronounced pre-goon-tuh) is a Spanish poetic form that is a type of argument between two poets. It consists of alternating ...
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Monday, February 22, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Shadorma

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The  shadorma  is a Spanish poetic form consisting of six lines (a sestet) written in syllabic form. The syllable count is 3/5/3/3/7/5. A s...
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Friday, February 19, 2016

Poetry Friday - The Poetry of Bad Weather

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Since it's February and we've had a few snow days already, I wanted a poem on the winter doldrums or snow. However, I came across th...
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Nonfiction 10 for 10 - Recommendations from a Teenage Boy

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How could I possibly pick the 10 nonfiction books I can't live without? Frankly, it's an impossible task for me. I use children...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Quintilla

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The quintilla is a Spanish form consisting of a five-line stanza. Normally the lines contain 8 syllables and have only two rhyming sounds. ...
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Friday, February 12, 2016

Poetry Friday - From The Temple of Nature

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In honor of Charles Darwin's birthday today, I'm sharing an excerpt from a book written by his grandfather. From The Temple of Nat...
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Monday, February 08, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Trine

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The trine (prounounced treen) is a French Poetic form consisting of three rhyming couplets and a triplet. There is no fixed meter or syllab...
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Friday, February 05, 2016

Poetry Friday - Welcome Mat Is Out!

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Welcome poetry lovers! I'm happy to be hosting Poetry Friday this week. I'm especially thrilled to be hosting on a day when the Poet...
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Thursday, February 04, 2016

PF Early Birds!

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My post for tomorrow will go live at 12:00 am and not one second sooner. (I mean, that IS when Friday begins, right?) For all you Left coa...
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Monday, February 01, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Ideograms

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This in one of my favorite May Swenson poems, second only to  Analysis of Baseball . Cardinal Ideograms by May Swenson 0     A mouth....
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