30 Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month and More

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend April 2015 April Is National Poetry Month   It’s National Poetry Month, a perfect time to include poetry in new and surprising ways in your classroom.  To inspire your creativity, we include a lesson plan, a book of poetry, and ideas to make April become, to quote E. E. Cummings, “mud-luscious” and “puddle-wonderful.”

30 Ways to Celebrate   Keep poetry alive, this month and every month. Remember old favorites, discover new ones. Check out this list of great activities, forward it to friends and colleagues, and enjoy!       Dear Poet Project   Participate in this year's National Poetry Month education project, Dear Poet, by inviting your students to write letters in response to poems shared by award-winning poets in a series of exclusive videos on Poets.org. Don't miss our Common Core-aligned lesson plan that accompanies the videos. Lesson Plan: Poems About Poetry   What is poetry? In a deep reading of three poems, students explore the perspectives of different poets, form their own opinions, and write an op-ed piece.           Poem in Your Pocket Day   Join us on April 30 for the national celebration of Poem in Your Pocket Day, a time when schools, bookstores, libraries, parks, workplaces, and other venues ring loud with open readings of poems from pockets. Be sure to download our PDF of poems, so you and your students have poems to share. And use the hashtag #pocketpoem if you’re spreading the word!         Poem in Your Pocket for Young Poets   Calling all young writers and readers of poetry! This book contains one hundred poems that gently can be torn from their binding and shared.  Includes well-known diverse poets who write for all ages!       Take a Look at Read This Poem, a Collaborative Project with 826 National Read More Lesson Plans Aligned with the Common Core Find Online Resources for Educators Share Your Students’ Work   Join us on social media this month, and use the hashtag #npm15 to highlight photos of your students’ poems, letters, and performances. We can’t wait to see what your creative spirits bring forth! Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038