Oct. 6th, 2016 is National Poetry Day in the UK (America celebrates Poetry Month in April so I may be back on this topic then). I don’t write poetry. You can see in this list of how-to-write-poetry tips why. In short, it requires too much thought for my brain–you have to put so much meaning into jsut a few words. But, I follow several poets who I think are excellent. For example:
- Audrey Dawn’s Oldest Daughter and Red-headed Sister
- Andrew’s View of the Week (where he occasionally posts some blockbuster poems he’s written
- Rob Taylor’s The Irreducible Primary
If you write poetry on a computer or would like to share it with friends, here are some great sites you might like to visit (remember: I teach K-8 so my resources tend to focus on that age group):
- Classical Poems for Kids
- Crocodile’s Toothache–video of a Shel Silverstein poem
- Famous Children’s Poems
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