Free Verse Poetry Flickr Project and the Academy of American Poets

Free Verse Project – Poets.org – Poetry, Poems, Bios & More via kwout

Do you love poetry?  Do you love photography?  Or both?  The Academy of American Poets is sponsoring the Free Verse Project. Here is the scoop!

Inspired by the 2009 National Poetry Month Poster which features lines by T. S. Eliot written in a fogged window, the Academy of American Poets invites you to capture and share verse in ephemeral ways.

Recreate a favorite poem off the page and contribute it to the Free Verse project. Write lines on a sandy beach, assemble twigs on a hillside, or chalk the sidewalk. Take a photo before it disappears and post it in the Free Verse group page on Flickr, on the Academy’s Fan Page on Facebook, or email your photo to freeverse@poets.org. Include the source of your lines in the photo caption.  All photos posted by April 15 will be automatically entered to win the new Poem in Your Pocket anthology and a commemorative piece of jewelry by San Francisco designer Jeanine Payer, who specializes in hand-engraving lines of poetry on earrings, necklaces, and other items. Selected entries will also be featured on Poets.org.

For more information, please visit the Free Verse Project Page hosted by the Academy of American Poets at Poets.org.

Color Poetry from The Live Poet Society

Do you love poetry?  Then take a look at the collection of Color Poems written by members of Creekview’s very own Live Poet Society!  These color inspired poems explore a variety of themes and use abstract connotations of color to create interesting and memorable images!

If you would like a copy of Mrs. Hamilton’s “Color Poem” framework to create your own color inspired poetry, please drop by the library and see her for a copy of the suggested guidelines. 

 

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Halloween Treats: Halloween Poetry!

From http://www.poets.org

Poems about the Underworld

As little demons, ghosts, and devils prepare to roam through the neighborhood, Poets.org descends into fire and brimstone with a new essay on Poems about the Underworld.  Allow Poets.org to guide you through the abyss with a frightful collection of poems from Virgil’s Aeneid and Dante’s Inferno to contemporary work by authors such as Louise Glück, Rita Dove, Jack Spicer, and Dana Levin.  On the web at: www.poets.org/hell

Halloween Frightcast

Enter a haunted village where witches stir cauldrons and goblins fill their baskets with enchanted fruit. Listen to spooky readings of poems by Christina Rossetti, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare on the special podcast for All Hallows Eve.  On the web at: www.poets.org/poetcast

Poets in the Graveyard

Find out which poets will be haunting your street this Halloween. You won’t need a crystal ball to uncover the authors entombed in your area. Instead, consult Poets.org’s Guide to Poets’ Graves. Find the jagged boulder that marks Ralph Waldo Emerson’s burial place and locate the library where the ashes of Langston Hughes lie beneath the floorboards. Take a trip to the graveyard to see the spare stone above the final resting place of E. E. Cummings, the tulip-strewn tomb of Sylvia Plath, and the wildly overgrown grave of Walt Whitman.

On the web at: www.poets.org/graves

Poetry Club Update!

Over 20 students attended the first poetry club information meeting on Friday, August 24!  The majority of members voted that “after school” as the best time to meet, so our first meeting will be Thursday, September 13, 2007 from 3:30 until 4:30.   More details will be coming soon about what will be happening at our first meeting.  Please RSVP for the first meeting by September 6 with Mrs. Hamilton.  Thanks!

Poetry Club Meeting August 24, 2007

We will be hosting an informational meeting about the newly formed Poetry Club on Friday, 8:00 A.M. in the media center.  We will be discussing activities and events for our club; we will also try to determine our meeting dates for the first semester.  If you can’t come to the meeting, stop by the library and get a free membership form from Mrs. Hamilton.  The Poetry Club is sponsored by Mrs. Hamilton and The Unquiet Library.