Thanks, Tim! We create to learn 💜

Day 22: Today's poem was written beside “Locust” by #JuliaAlvarez & a reminder: It's never too late to be patient w/ ourselves & try something again or for the 1st time ever! #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting #MentorTexts #WriteBesideThem
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Day 21: Written beside “Heavenly Bodies” by Alison Luterman, today's poem was drafted in my notebook late last spring prior to my husband's and my 20th wedding anniversary. #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting #AmRevising #WriteforYourLife poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

Day 20: Also written beside “Ribollita” by D. Hilbert. One #mentortext & two totally different poems. Again, some #GeminiAI line art representations of my poems pique my interest. Others just make me laugh. #nuance #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

Day 19: One of two poems I wrote beside “Ribollita” by Donna Hilbert. Reminds me that #MentorTexts function in a plethora of ways. This one helped me to zoom in, then out on a simple act. #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting
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Day 18: Written beside “Lost and Found” by Laura Foley, this chronicles a middle school science field trip. Moving it from notebook to screen, I cut a lot to focus on the essence of the experience. #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #ecopoetry
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Day 17: Today's poem reckons with the many sciences of reading. "Poetry as Argument" in @thevogelman.bsky.social #PoetryPauses inspires me to see arguments in poetry. This one uses Comparison/Contrast. #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

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Day 16: An #ecopoem inspired by a plant I got as a gift and some informational text about it. #nationalpoetrymonth #ecopoetry #poetryaspractice #amwriting #poetry poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

Day 15: This was written beside "Water" by Rudy Francisco. It reminds me of Flannery O'Connor's statement: “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #WriteforYourLife #WriteBesideThem poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

Day 14: Today's poem, written beside “Nothing Wants to Suffer” by Danusha Lameris, is a good reminder that #MentorTexts introduce us to new versions of our writing selves every time we utilize them! #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #Motherhood

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Day 13: Something I've been tinkering with is using #GoogleGemini to create line art "reflecting" the poem. I'd never visualize this, but it does convey some of the original meaning... #PoetryasPractice #AIinEducation #Visualization #NationalPoetryMonth poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

Day 12: Some subjects I just can't write about in any other genre than #poetry, and one of those is my younger brother 💙 #PoetryasPractice #Memoir #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting #AutismAwareness #AutismAcceptance #AutismAwarenessMonth #Siblings poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

Day 11: Today's poem was written beside Naomi Shihab Nye's "Red Brocade." It reminds me that sometimes it takes years to see the results of your parental efforts 🥰 #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #MentorTexts #NationalPoetryMonth #Poetry #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

Day 10: I love how poetry can take me through time in a matter of lines, to remind me that every day we are all reshaped into our next selves! #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryasPractice #PointofView #NWP #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting #Poetry
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Day 9: This is a POV "talk back" poem written beside “Chore” by Angela Narciso Torres. According to Gemini, the theme is: "true spirituality cannot be manufactured." Yeah... but more than that 🤣 #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryasPractice #PointofView #NWP poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

Day 8: Another poem written beside "Ode" by Zoe Higgins, but this one is from the P-O-V of a book that hasn't been read. #AmWriting #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryasPractice #PointofView #Poetry #Perspective #Personification #MentorTexts #WriteBesideThem

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Day 7: One of my notebook "seasons" this year was writing back to a poem's original speaker from another P-O-V. This poem is a "writeback" to Zoe Higgin's "Ode," where the speaker celebrates the undone. #AmWriting #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryasPractice
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Day 6: Sometimes reading a poem leads to writing a poem not inspired by it but talking back to it. This happened when a sappy gratitude poem ticked me off 🤣 #AmWriting #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLifepoetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/april-6-breaking...

Poem 5: "Birthright" was written beside a poem by Ada Limon. Writing beside #mentortexts is so important, because you never know what might emerge when you do! #surprisedbywriting #AmWriting #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife

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Poem 4, "At Galway Lake" captures a mindful moment in nature. #mindfulness #writingaswellnesspractice #AmWriting #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife #NationalPoetryMonth

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Poem 3, "Ironing," is an homage to my mom. When I began to type it, it took the shape of an iron! Not in the initial notebook draft, but ❤️ how we can be #surprisedbywriting #writingjoy #AmWriting #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife #NationalPoetryMonth

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Poem 2 is "Ultrasound, October 2005," a snapshot of pure joy! #AmWriting #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

Poem 1 is "Chiminea," a poem about the simple practice of making time and space to be together. #AmWriting #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

THREAD: It's April! Which means #NationalPoetryMonth. This year is less about volume & more about mining notebooks to write "micro" pieces. I’m prioritizing wellness and discovery over a polished product with short, sustainable daily poems. #AmWriting #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife

Cake pans, board games, cameras, wedding gowns, and now… seeds! Picked up some packets today when I stopped in. Yet another reason why #librariesrock

Latest #bookmail from @penguinschoollib.bsky.social Thank you!!! #mglit #kidlit #readingjoy #titletalk #shelfietalk

#BookLove #ReadingJoy and #writinginspiration from Beth Ferry this week! #kidlit #readtowrite

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