This is the Open Write, a place for educators to nurture their writing lives and to advocate for writing poetry in community. We gather every month and daily in April — no sign-ups, no fees, no commitments. Come and go as you please. All that …
MBOE: The Most Boring Object Ever
Open Write is a community celebration of poetry in October—an invitation to write, read, and reflect together. You’re welcome to write a poem a day or to come and go as you need. Reading and leaving a brief note—a line you loved, an image that …
Six lines, three stanzas, one little tale: Crafting a cherita
Open Write is a community celebration of poetry—an invitation to write, read, and reflect together. You’re welcome to write a poem a day or to come and go as you need. Reading and leaving a brief note—a line you loved, an image that stayed, a …
The Grade Behind the Grade
Ethical ELA’s monthly Open Write is a community celebration of poetry—an invitation to write, read, and reflect together. You’re welcome to write a poem a day this Friday through Monday or to come and go as you need. Reading and leaving a brief note—a line …
What Aja Monet and Donte Collins Taught Me About Writing Childhood
The Poets We Return To is a Wednesday series on Ethical ELA, featuring writers reflecting on the poets whose words they return to and the ways those poems continue to work on their lives, teaching, and writing. We continue today with Ryan Burns’ essay on …
Mary Oliver in Middle Age
There are poets we read, and there are poets we return to. Their words find us again in classrooms, in our own writing, in seasons of change, grief, wonder, and becoming. Sometimes we return to a single poem. Sometimes to a line we have carried …
Welcome to Lagniappe! Let’s Write a Little Extra
Open Write is a community meet-up to write poetry on the third Friday of every month for four days—an invitation to write, read, and reflect together. You’re welcome to write a poem each day or to come and go as you need. You can also …
Alora Young
On Open Write Sunday, we feature poets we love. Alora Young Alora Young is a poet who has traced her life back through generations of Southern women. She is the 2021 Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States. Listen. https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1114490555/1114821128 Inspiration Alora says that …
Back to Living
Open Write is a community meet-up to write poetry on the third Friday of every month for four days—an invitation to write, read, and reflect together. You’re welcome to write a poem each day or to come and go as you need. You can also …
Who Came Before Us
Open Write is a community meet-up to write poetry on the third Friday of every month for four days—an invitation to write, read, and reflect together. You’re welcome to write a poem each day or to come and go as you need. You can also …