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Writing Prompt: Celebrate Your Name with Ghazals

Get ideas for writing a poem that explores, reflects on, and celebrates your own name.

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Resilience: Today & Tomorrow

2021 Poetry & Prose Writing Challenge for Incarcerated Writers

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Poetry Potluck #13: Popcorn for Morgan Parker

Caitlin Harriford & Maddie Norris share a poem and a recipe

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July 20, 2021
Education Afield: Youth Arts Program
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July 6, 2021
Even When We Bend: 6-12 Anthology
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Book that reads "Imagine if we could fly" with a bird on it, grass, and a blue background

June 22, 2021
Imagine if We Could Fly: K-5 Anthology
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June 8, 2021
Five Poetry Lesson Plans for Young Artists
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May 25, 2021
If We Could Ask 2020 & 2021 Anything: What Second Graders Have to Say About the Pandemic
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May 11, 2021
Education Afield: High School Poetry on Walls & Borders
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April 27, 2021
The Poem is a Thing We Ought to Touch: On Reading Poetry with Kids
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April 20, 2021
Virtual Kids Create: April 2021 Edition
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Hands holding a small plant / photo by Quah Choong Ming

April 13, 2021
Presents/Presence: TC Tolbert's Zoom Poetry Activities
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Wooden sword resting against gray chain mail / photo by Bronwyn Erb

April 6, 2021
Voices from Paolo Freire: Arms, Legs, and Foam
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Two hands hold a mastodon tooth / Photo from Leo Schirack

March 30, 2021
Voices from Paolo Freire: The Tooth
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Two people stand against a wall with murals / still from CHIFLADA by Monica McClure

March 23, 2021
Poetry Videos in the College Classroom
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A tree with green leaves from a ground's eye view / photo by Jon Moore

March 17, 2021
Voices from Paolo Freire: The Tree That I Believe
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A yellow bird on a branch of pink flowers / photos by Ray Hennessy

March 16, 2021
Virtual Kids Create: March 2021 Edition
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Desert road with a blue sky / photo by Meriç Dağlı

March 10, 2021
Voices from Paolo Freire: Moving Day
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