Time for Poetry: My Junior High Poetic Aspirations

I mentioned before that I recently pulled out my creative writing journal from 8th grade. You knew there had to … More

Time for Poetry: The Perils of Modeling Writing for Students

I believe in modeling writing for my students, as I have stated emphatically before; but let me just say how … More

In the movie The Prince and Me, the two main characters have a conversation (over laundry) in which they discuss … More

Last week we discussed focusing on words rather than ideas in poetry. After reflecting on that lesson and taking a few … More

Our focus for this assignment was wordplay. Taking some ideas from this wonderful site, PBS’ ”Fooling with Words,” with Bill … More