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Sunday, April 20, 2025

HELLO MY NAME IS - Day 20

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

And now for today!

Students - I chose what to write about today by looking at the categories remaining on my sheet above. Since Lou was reading a book yesterday, today she ponders the bookmark. Maybe I wrote this poem today because I spent some of last evening looking at old Easter photographs of our children, amazed by how time does feel so slow and fast at the same time. Our lives seep into everything we write. This is one reason that I am careful about how I spend my time. It matters not only for my life...but for my writing life too.

I may play around with adding some new categories and poem ideas as I think through the last third of this month's poems. It has been strangely nourishing and joyful for me to write as Little Red Riding Hood this month, and right now I am wondering whether I will keep doing so on my own once April ends.

Thank you for joining me on this twentieth 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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