Poetry Friday: What September Knows
A poem about fall. Autumn poems. September poems.| unexpectedintersections.blogspot.com
Hi everyone!| Unexpected Intersections
Happy Friday! Thank you for all the comments, well wishes (I'm feeling much better now, thank goodness!) and poems (it's so fun to see what other poets do with the same prompts!) in response to last week's post.| Unexpected Intersections
Two weeks into 2024, and I can say I've been sick for more than half of the year ... I hope your year is off to a healthier start!| Unexpected Intersections
There is so much happening in our world right now, it can be hard to take it all in.| Unexpected Intersections
We are surrounded by snails. We see snails of all sizes on the paths after the rain.| Unexpected Intersections
This week Monday (June 20th) was World Refugee Day, an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. | Unexpected Intersections
It's been a busy couple of months, with several writing deadlines. Now, with deadlines met, I'm embracing the pause that follows the busyness of this spring. | Unexpected Intersections
Let's talk about turtles! Last month I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of the wonderful new middle-grade novel, Trouble at Turtle Pond, by Diana Renn, which is out in the world this month! | Unexpected Intersections
There's been a lot going on in my writing world lately, so today I thought I'd round up some of my latest news.| Unexpected Intersections
Spring is here!| Unexpected Intersections
My very first Poetry Friday poem was inspired by the fact that my mother taught English as a Foreign Language when I was growing up. Our church ran a free program which allowed my mother, whose dream of being a teacher had to be deferred when she left high school, to finally realize that dream. | Unexpected Intersections
This week my students will be taking a test that includes the present continuous verb form. We use the present continuous to talk about actions that have started, and are not yet finished. As I prepare my test for my students, I realize that I've been in a present continuous frame of mind all week.| Unexpected Intersections
I'm processing the events of the past few days in poetic fragments. | Unexpected Intersections
In our family, we do a lot of thinking about thinking, because we are all neurodiverse (autism and ADHD). We're often engaged in discussions about how our neurodiversity influences the way we experience the world. From how we socialize to how we organize ourselves to complete tasks, our neurodiversity is a factor in everything we do and every experience we have.| Unexpected Intersections
Welcome everyone to Poetry Friday! If you're new to Poetry Friday, you can read more about it here.| Unexpected Intersections
How can it be the end of January already? Yet here we are, on another Poetry Friday, with February standing the wings, waiting to claim center stage.| Unexpected Intersections
I hope everyone has had, as we say here, a good "slide" into the new year! | Unexpected Intersections
On a recent lunchtime walk, we were greeted by this wonderful figure, and I knew the moment I saw her that I would have to write a poem about her. | Unexpected Intersections
It's been great fun this month writing Inktober-inspired haiku, senryu and tanka poems. You can see my prompt list and the first week of poems here, the second week of poems here, and the third week here.| Unexpected Intersections
I'm continuing to have fun with my Spooktober project - writing poems for kids based on a series of Inktober illustrator prompts. You can see the prompt list and the first week of poems here, and the second batch of poems here. | Unexpected Intersections
I'm writing a poem for every day of October, playing with poems inspired by a list of Inktober prompts written in senryu, haiku, and tanka poetic forms. You can read the first week's worth of my Spooktober poems, and see my prompt list, in this post. | Unexpected Intersections
I've been immersed in poetry and verse in the past couple of weeks - first in a Novel in Verse virtual workshop led by the amazing Nikki Grimes and Padma Venkatraman, then in my own work as I dived in deep to apply all the insights and tips that I took away from that experience. | Unexpected Intersections
A poem about fall. Autumn poems. September poems.| unexpectedintersections.blogspot.com
blog about poetry and writing for children by author Elisabeth Norton| unexpectedintersections.blogspot.com
