Poetry Friday Round-up is at Today’s Little Ditty.
For National Poetry Month, Chris Lehman has invited teacher/poets to join together to read, listen, and discuss poetry. Chris posed this question to the group, “Why Poetry?” Inspired by Kevin Hodgson, I tried out Tapestry for my response. Click on the link to view my response.
https://readtapestry.com/s/6Bs7sVEW7/
Earlier in the week, I posted about my writing life responding to fellow blogger/writer Sandra Sarr’s questions. I am From poems have been around for a while and are written in many middle grade classrooms. But I wanted to take a different spin on the I am From and write about where my writing life comes from.
I am from a short story contest in tenth grade.
I won for my row.I am from Dear Diary, “I want to be a writer
if only someone would give me the confidence.”I am from “Where is Papa going with that ax?”
to “Blue is cackling something awful this morning.”
from Children’s Literature class to
the National Writing Project Teacher Institute.I am from retreats, marathons, and critique groups
holding me accountable to find an authentic voice
and make writing a daily practice.I am from pen to paper,
fingers to keyboard,
opening my veins and bleeding
my words,
trusting them to
the world.–Margaret Simon, all rights reserved
Reflections on the Teche 