Small Reads for Brighters Days
I’m celebrating the last week of summer with poems about school! Here’s poem #3. #2 Wand PointedEnds write lettersNeat–Caging magicIn Lines onSheets –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved And Stampede! got a nice mention on the PlanetEsme Plan. Yay!
I love to write acrostics–they’re fun and they often come fairly easily. But not always. Stop by Kid Magazine Writers to see my Meter Readers column, Acrostics: Poetry, Top to Bottom. In it, I share my process and also some of my struggles And here’s one of my acrostics from the article, which I was […]
I’ve been thinking about a variation on acrostics this week. They’re called phrase acrostics, and I hadn’t really heard of them until an instructor mentioned them in a poetry class I was taking last year at the Loft Literary Center. When she explained that you take a phrase or quotation and write a poem […]
