poetry power!!! how to create a culture of poetry in your school
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POD (Poem of the Day)
• Poetry “Gateway Drugs”
• Fun, Light Verse
• Short
• Curriculum Related
• Relevant
• Varied Forms
• Staff Suggestions
• Email, social media, announcements, even hard copies
Fun Contests
Spontaneous and/or planned
Haikus and other simple forms or themes work best
For staff, not just students!
Give out “fabulous” prizes (like pencils) !
Special Events
Poem in Your Pocket Day
Poetry Café/ Poetry Blasts/ Poetry Slams
Author visits
Your ideas?
Has it Worked? Poetry by the Numbers!
7 years
140 Poems of the Day
More than 50 fun poetry contests
More than 60 staff poets including P.E. teachers, paraprofessionals, and our amazingly prolific security officer. . . with new contributors every year!
Too many student poets to count
Eight past and current “poetry committee” members
Multiple poetry “special events”
And…. an impressive number of students winning local, state, and national poetry contests and participating in poetry events!