MORE 'POETRY' POSTS
Take 5: Entries into Poetry
After The Kiss, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Take 5, Terra Elan McVoy
|Poetry is weird and hard. It’s confusing and vague and boring. Unless it’s not. Here are five easy entries to poetry for teens, in honor of National Poetry Month. 1. After The Kiss by Terra Elan McVoy It looks like realistic romantic teen fiction, it moves like realistic romantic teen fiction, it IS realistic romantic teen […]
Whether it’s in conjunction with the winter holidays, Mother’s Day, or just for something fun, these simple activities are inexpensive, easy to put together, and provide each teen with a nice giftable item to take home. 1. Snack-in-a-Jar Photo credit:www.kids-cooking-activities.com/ There are innumerable variations on the in-a-jar theme, but the very simplest is […]
TPiB: 5 Things To Do With Post-Its In Your Library
Booktalking, Displays, Poetry, Programming, Teen Spaces, TPIB
|With only a few minutes and a couple dollars, you can do some really creative and engaging things. Check out these ideas, take a look around your space, grab some sticky notes and see what you can do! Encourage teens to write poems to share on a wall or window, or encourage them to copy […]
Like a lot of Middle and High School students, I started writing angsty teenage poetry with the best of them. And I love doing National Poetry Month (April) activities with my tweens and teens. Actually, you can read some of my poetry as I wrote a few poems as part of the awareness campaign for […]
The One Word to Terrify Them All (a guest post by K. A. Holt)
Books written in Poetry, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Jessi Kirby, K. A. Holt, Poetry, Uncategorized, Zombies
|On Sunday, March 10th, author K. A. Holt will be visiting my library as part of our Texas Sweethearts and Scoundrels visit. If you live in or around the Grand Prairie area, please consider stopping by and supporting libraries and authors. Today, author K. A. Holt shares a guest post with us to talk about […]
Oh the places you’ll read . . . You can read books on a bench You can read books in a trench You can read books in a wagon When behind me you are draggin’ You can read books in a line You can read books feeling fine You can read books when you’re sick […]
Book Review: October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Leslea Newman
A Song for Matthew Shepard, Book Reviews, GLBTQ, Matthew Shepard, Nonfiction, October Mourning, Poetry
|I first heard about October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard from Terri Lessene at the 2012 YALSA YA Literature Symposium, who described it by saying: “it introduces Matthew Shepard to a generation too young to remember him.” My heart sank when I heard that. Matthew Shepard’s story was pivotal for me and many of my […]
A few of Karen’s favorite things . . .
Collection Development, Duct Tape, Magazines, Poetry, Professional Development, Twitter
|Christmas is over so I won’t bore you with my witty intro that makes the song get stuck in your brain (mmmm . . . brains!) No, I’ll just dive right into it. These are my favorite things.Collection Development Tools: Netgalley/Edelweiss I work at a smaller library now, and run a blog, so I really […]
Freeing your life with words . . . (TPIB: poetry and writing crafts)
Crafts, Ellen Hopkins, Poemcrazy, Poetry, Susan Wooldridge, Tilt, TPIB
|I never wrote a poem,At least one that I’d shareBut if I wrote a poemDoes that mean I won the dare? It seems like there is not enough poetry in the world today, if you ask me. I have been doing poetry contests with teens in libraries for almost 20 years and each year, there […]
“We shall sit here, softlyBeneath two different yearsand the rich earth between usshall drink our tears” – Audre Lorde April is Autism Awareness Month Last week new statistics were released from the CDC that indicates that 1 out of every 88 children are now being diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum (ASD). April is Autism Awareness […]
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