Today’s poem: boxes and holes
- Letting Go – Margo Roby
- Ideation – Gary Glauber
- Introspection – Massimo Soranzio
- A Stream of Sky – Misky Braendeholm
- Amazon – Barbara Crary
I thought today would be a good day to post some other links that I’ve come across lately:
- National Poetry Month: Useful Resources for Teachers and Students – from Edutopia
- It’s World Poetry Day! Here are 12 poems every human should know by heart – from Hello Giggles
- Celebrating National Poetry Month – from the National Archives Foundation
- Poetry Month – Tor.com
Sadly Waiting for Recess 
I loved seeing the choices made for the 12 poems. I used to do my own version for my tenth graders. First day of school I would have the poems tacked up all over the classroom but wouldn’t mention them for a couple of weeks, when we started the poetry unit. I loved watching as they were pulled by curiosity, or a classmate, to read one, then two, then…
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I’m going to have to try that – with poems for fifth-graders, of course.
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