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Thursday, April 17, 2025

HELLO MY NAME IS - Day 17

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

Students - Happy International Haiku Poetry Day! How beautiful and perfect to devote a special day to haiku here, as the Haiku Foundation's website says, "in the heart of the United States celebration of National Poetry Month."

As I often do when preparing to write a different form of poem, this morning I again read some of the poems in the archive of the Haiku Society of America's Haiku Award winners, in memory of Harold G. Henderson

I always learn so much about haiku from my friend Robyn Hood Black, artist, poet, and author who inspires me with her own haiku and knowledge of this form. You can read Robyn's haiku thoughts and ideas as well as some of her own haiku here at her website. Teacher friends, please note that Robyn generously includes many resources, including haiku teaching resources at this link.

Today's haiku brings us back into the forest as it is now time for Lou and Nan to deliver apple pies.

Thank you for joining me on this seventeenth 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!

xo,

Amy

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1 comment:

  1. Oh, Amy, I'm so touched by your shout-out! Thank you. I am way-beyond-fashionably late to your Poetry Month project this year, but this "Hood" can't wait to dip into your posts. Cheers for your cardinal - we have a pair with a nest in a bush in front of our front porch this year!

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