Our Host Stacey L. Joy is a National Board Certified Teacher with 38 years of teaching in the elementary classroom. Teaching her Joyteam scholars the power of knowledge, self-advocacy and justice are at the core of her practice. Stacey is a poetry lover, a creator …
A very special thank you to our August Open Write hosts: Denise Krebs, Gayle Sands, Wendy Everard, Scott McCloskey, and Ashlyn O’Rourke. We so appreciate your generosity of time and compassion in creating these writing prompts and attending to our lines and stanzas these past …
Scott, a teacher from Michigan, has been playing with AI to turn photos into paintings and is, currently, underwhelmed with his results. Inspiration Somebody more mathematically astute than me said a picture is worth a thousand words. I’d wager they didn’t see the above picture. …
Wendy Everard is a high school English teacher and writer living in central New York. Her role as mother and teacher has given her plenty to write about since she started writing personal narrative and poetry, lifelong hobbies kicked into overdrive when she joined a …
Gayle lives in Taneytown, MD (just south of Gettysburg, PA) with two useless small dogs, three cats and a really lucky husband. She has three adult children and a much-loved toddler granddaughter, Maya. (She cannot wait to disrupt the very careful upbringing enforced by Maya’s …
Denise Krebs is the chief learner in life’s adventure. Since she retired from teaching at the end of 2021, she has had time on her hands (sometimes too much). When she wrote her mentor poem on hands, she realized she needs to do some planning …
Welcome to Day 5 of the July Open Write. Deepest gratitude to our July poetry hosts: Mo Daley, Susan Ahlbrand, Shelby Sexton, and Mike Dombrowski. If you have written with us before, welcome back. If you are joining us for the first time, you are …
Welcome to Day 4 of the July Open Write. If you have written with us before, welcome back. If you are joining us for the first time, you are in the kind, capable hands of today’s host, so just read the prompt below and then, …
Welcome to Day 3 of the July Open Write. If you have written with us before, welcome back. If you are joining us for the first time, you are in the kind, capable hands of today’s host, so just read the prompt below and then, …
Welcome to Day 2 of the July Open Write. If you have written with us before, welcome back. If you are joining us for the first time, you are in the kind, capable hands of today’s host, so just read the prompt below and then, …