Happy National Poetry Month!
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Hello, Poetry Friends! This month I am sharing poems written in the voice of Little Red Riding Hood, and I invite you to join me in writing in the voice of someone else too. You might choose a fairy tale character or a book character or a person from history or anyone else real or imagined. These are your poems, so you make the decisions. Each April day, I will share my poem and a little bit about writing poetry. Mostly, we’ll just be writing in short lines with good words and not worrying about rhyming. Meaning first. Our focus this month will be adopting the perspective of another…for 30 days. I invite you to join me in this project! To do so, simply:
1. Choose a character from fiction or history or somewhere else in the world of space and time, and commit to writing a daily poem in this person's voice for the 30 days of April 2025. You might even choose an animal.
2. Write a new poem for each day of April. Feel free to
print and find inspiration from this idea sheet that I will be writing from all month long.
Teachers, if you wish to share any HELLO MY NAME IS... subjects or poems, please email them to me at the contact button above. I would love to read what your students write and learn from how they approach their own projects.
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD'S POEMS SO FAR
(I learned about Vocaroo in a school yesterday.
I am trying to find something that plays easily in schools. Does this?)
Students - This month, I am inspired by my friend Tricia, writer at The Miss Rumphius Effect, to try some new forms. She shares many at her site, and so today I wrote my first etheree.
An etheree is a ten line poem that begins with one syllable per line and ends with 10 syllables, growing like this:
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Or, the form can move in the opposite syllable direction, beginning with 10 syllables and ending with 1 as I have done above:
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Learn more about this form, and maybe try it yourself HERE with Liz Garton Scanlon.
Thank you so much to all of the teachers, librarians, administrators, PTO parents, and students who welcomed me so warmly to different Ohio schools today. I could not have felt more welcomed by your warmth and kindness and loved seeing your art, reading your poetry, and sharing with you.
Sign by Students of Alton Darby Elementary
Hilliard, Ohio
Thank you, friends, for joining me on this twelfth day of HELLO MY NAME IS...
To learn about more National Poetry Month projects and all kinds of April goodness, visit Jama's Alphabet Soup where Jama has generously gathered this coming month's Kidlitosphere poetry happenings. And if you are interested in learning about or writing from any of my previous 14 National Poetry Month projects, you can find them here. Happy National Poetry Month!
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