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 …
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 …
Nature and Memory
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 …
Seeing Anew
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 …