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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Over the years, one of the questions I have been asked most often is, “Who are your favorite poets?” I never know quite how to answer because my answer changes with the seasons. Some poets stay beside me for years. Others arrive when I need …
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. This August, three of the contributors to an anthology for students, Picture Perfect Poetry, have shared prompts related to …
This is the Open Write, a place for educators to nurture their writing lives and to advocate for writing poetry in community. Today Patricia Franz, one of the contributors to the anthology for students, Picture Perfect Poetry, is our host. Next month the Open Write will …
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. This August, three of the contributors to an anthology for students, Picture Perfect Poetry, have shared prompts related to …