Inside, Love National Poetry Month celebrates its 30th anniversary, inspiring extensive poetry writing. The author shares experiences, prompts, and insights, while encouraging engagement with fellow poets and exploration of personal creativity.

#NationalPoetryMonth celebrates its 30th anniversary, inspiring extensive poetry reading writing. The author shares experiences, prompts, and insights, while encouraging engagement with fellow poets and exploration of personal creativity. #napowrimo #napowrimo26 #verselove #clmooc #poetry26

NaPoWriMo Inside, Love National Poetry Month celebrates its 30th anniversary, inspiring extensive poetry writing. The author shares experiences, prompts, and insights, while encouraging engagement with fellow poets and exploration of personal creativity.

#NationalPoetryMonth celebrates its 30th anniversary, inspiring extensive poetry reading writing. The author shares experiences, prompts, and insights, while encouraging engagement with fellow poets and exploration of personal creativity. #napowrimo #napowrimo26 #verselove #clmooc #poetry26

It's Officially April, #VerseLove, so Today Will End the Last Post Until My Poetic Shenanigans Cease in May. For Today, an Achievement I have to applaud Meals on Wheels. Daily, they arrive with a warm meal and a cold one every morning...the drivers are kind and gracious, the...

It's Officially April, #VerseLove, so Today Will End the Last Post Until My Poetic Shenanigans Cease in May. For Today, an Achievement

It’s VerseLove! Dear Ethical ELA community, April is just around the corner, which means it’s time to begin preparing for one of our favorite traditions: #VerseLove, our month-long celebration of poetry and community writing. Each April, we gather as writers, readers, and witnesses to poems. Some of us write every day. Some write once a week. Some read and respond to others.

It’s VerseLove!

Dear Ethical ELA community, April is just around the corner, which means it’s time to begin preparing for one of our favorite traditions: #VerseLove, our month-long celebration of poetry and community writing. Each April, we gather as writers, readers, and witnesses to poems. Some…

How Many Poems? #NPM25 Day 30 A poem a day for 30 days, which also means I have read poem upon poem upon poem for 30 days. I’ve read poems to my students, poems written by my students, poems offered as invitations, poems …

30 poems in 30 days. Thanks #npm25 for a great month of #writing #poetry. #verselove #reflection

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If: NPM25 Day 29 Last week I came across a list of someone’s favorite children’s books of 2025 and was immediately drawn to If I Could Choose a Best Day. It’s a collection of poems that all begin …

Writing under the influence of If. #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove #sliceoflife

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A Change in the Schedule: NPM25 Day 28 Ducks in a row meetings planned appointments pointed and then POP the crown detaches quickly pushed back into place but the damage is done to the dental work to the schedule to the planning to the …

Expect the unexpected #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove

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Ode to the Sea: NPM25 Day 27 Traffic crawls lot’s full secret parking is not so secret today a sea wall of humanity lines my beach (I’m not mad, everyone should have a relationship with the sea) As I walk, the sea …

An ode for Sunday. #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove #ode

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Irritating Eyes: NPM25 Day 26 Scott’s prompt to write a poem about a minor ailment made finding a subject easy, but figuring out how to make a poem of it was much harder today. And as often happens, I had to find a struct…

Write about a minor ailment. #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove

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Springtime Haibun: NPM25 Day 24 Spring is a time for bees and buds and blossoms. It seems that everything is in motion, including my students. We’ve passed the time of settled in and are now in the time of change. Plants ar…

Capturing some classroom springtime in a #haibun. #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove

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Things to Do: NPM25 Day 23 There is a certain kind of overwhelm that enters the classroom when the number of remaining school days drops below 30. Student learning skyrockets with confidence at its maximum–these should…

When there are too many things to do, #write a poem. #npm25 #poetry #verselove #spring

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An Earth Day Prose Poem: NPM25 Day 22 Sometimes Ocean roars in like a dragon, frothing and swirling, energy radiating from every salty drop, tossing boats, leveling cliffs, chasing swimmers to shore. Every scale and feather ripples in …

What poem will you write for #earthday? #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove

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Five Things I Did Last Week: NPM25 Day 21 Five things I did last week: Rolled with an earthquake on a Monday morning in my classroom while my students were out at their music class. It was not THE big one, but it was a big one. Realized I …

When a listicle becomes a poem. #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove

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Always Happy to Play with Words, Especially When They are New to My Spoken Vocabulary. Day 18 of #VerseLove (or OctobthorpeVerseLove) I'm happy because my out-of-town, once-in-town friends have returned to Stratford to spend the night. We had dinner last night with Beth and...

Always Happy to Play with Words, Especially When They are New to My Spoken Vocabulary. Day 18 of #VerseLove (or OctothorpeVerseLove)

This is the World: NPM25 Day 16 Some days writing opportunities mesh, with one complementing another. Verselove offered a form today: an etheree. I’ve written to this form before (you can see an etheree about poppies here).…

Today...an #etheree. #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove

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Dreaming in Color: NPM25 Day 15 Last night I woke up in a dream reaching for color. I could see it, just beyond my fingertips. Words pushed and pulled in my brain, like poetry chewing gum, stretching to capture the colors in that…

Do you dream in color? #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove #color #prosepoem #photography

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Tapping the Safe Spaces in Our Lives...Day 14 of #VerseLove. For Me? Definitely My Front Porch Where I Do Much of My Thinking Phew. That was a long day (as if they aren't all long days). Began with the dentist who basically told her staff that my retirement funds ar...

Tapping the Safe Spaces...Day 14 of #VerseLove. For Me? Definitely My Front Porch Where I Do Much of My Thinking, Writing, Collaborating, and Creating

Safe Harbor: NPM25 Day 14 I’ve been reading a memoir called The Salt Path by Raynor Winn–and while I’m not yet halfway through–I’m struck by the way the relationship between the couple sustains…

Where's your safe harbor? #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove

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I’m Addicted to Bookstores: NPM25 Day 12 I can’t resist a great bookstore or even a not so great bookstore. Wherever I travel, bookstores are always on my list of places to visit. I’ve been trying hard to stop buying books and…

Can you really have too many books? #npm25 #poetry #writing #books #verselove

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Thankful to Make It to Saturday Morning, Yesterday Day 11 of #VerseLove, and Thankful to Have a Friday Prompts of Remembrance I slid into Friday evening not knowing if I was coming or going. I have piles of materials needing to be graded, flashbacks to meetings that...

Day 11 of #VerseLove: Thankful to have a chance to remember, recall, reflect, and write.

I Don’t Remember–A Photo Essay: NPM25 Day 11 I don’t remember when I fell in love with wildflowers Maybe it was when I danced to the music of wild mustard forehead to forehead with great blue heron clapping the beat Maybe it was when th…

A #poem that is a #photoessay. #npm25 #wildflowers #photography #writing #verselove

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Slow Down: NPM25 Day 10 Today’s Verselove prompt was an invitation to look closely–something I find that my camera helps me do. So after a stroll through my camera roll, I found my inspiration. Slow Motion Fir…

An invitation to look closely. #npm25 #poetry #verselove #writing #photographychallenge

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Poetry Month Day 10: Driving the Point Home Today's #VerseLove prompt, "Look Closely," comes from Joanne Emery. Her poem for the day tells the story of the house of her loved ones. As I read her work, a poem I've been percolating on the back burner might be ready to come to the surface. So I'll give it a go.

Poetry Month Day 10: Driving the Point Home

Today's #VerseLove prompt, "Look Closely," comes from Joanne Emery. Her poem for the day tells the story of the house of her loved ones. As I read her work, a poem I've been percolating on the back burner might be ready to come to the surface. So I'll…

Poetry Month Day 9: Depending on When You Met Me Today's #Verselove poetry challenge is to compose a "depending on when you met me" poem. It's a good way to think about all of the "me's" I've been over the years, and to whom.

Poetry Month Day 9: Depending on When You Met Me

Today's #Verselove poetry challenge is to compose a "depending on when you met me" poem. It's a good way to think about all of the "me's" I've been over the years, and to whom.

Poetry Month Day 8: Birthright Today's #VerseLove poem explores a gesture (along with a few other choice things) I inherited from my dad.

Poetry Month Day 8: Birthright

Today's #VerseLove poem explores a gesture (along with a few other choice things) I inherited from my dad.

Poppy Love: NPM25 Day 7 When Erica over at Verselove offered an invitation to write about flowers, I knew immediately that I would write about the California state flower: the golden poppy. Poppy’s feel like my alte…

A little #poppy love on day 7! #npm25 #poetry #verselove #writing #photography

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I've Written Many "Where I'm From" Poems (Thanks, George Ella Lyons), So Took the Day 6 Challenge to Alter Towards How Have I Arrived at This Point Definitely tree-blooming sneezing. Ha-choo. Yikes. Pollen everywhere. I also cooked for the week and baked a cake for the neighbor who lost ...

I've Written Many "Where I'm From" Poems (Thanks, George Ella Lyons), So Took the Day 6 of #VerseLove Challenge to Alter Towards How Have I Arrived at This Point

Where I’m From: NPM25 Day 6 Where I’m from poems are tried and true in the writing project circles where I spend my time. So when Stacey at Verselove shared Where I’m From, Again as today’s post, it felt fam…

Can you express where you are from in just 17 syllables? #npm25 #poetry #verselove #haiku #photography

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Honored to, Once Again, Host a Session of @EthicalEla #Verselove and to Share a Prompt & Poem To Get the Phalanges Thinking I sketched a poem soon after #Verelove '24 in hopes of chiseling it throughout the year for this year's verse love.  Early in my teaching c...

Honored to, Once Again, Host a Session of @EthicalEla #Verselove and to Share a Prompt & Poem To Get the Phalanges Thinking #SameOldStory

poem with background of music manuscript I am from whole notes, a sound languishing over time, melody on the prowl for rhyme I am from half-notes, broken apart like seeds, by a need to always quicken the pace I am from quarter notes, articulation dots scratched along the top, reminding me to pause, breathe, stop I am from eighth notes, a hand over your shoulders, a curved slur blurring us together in a riff I am from sixteenth notes, in rapid succession; I disappear into the air before you have the chance to hear me

Today's #Verselove #poetry prompt at #OpenWrite via Ethical ELA is an I Am From poem. I tried a music note theme.

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