Immersed in Verse: An Informative, Slightly Irreverent & Totally Tremendous Guide to Living the Poet's Life by Allan Wolf and illustrated by Tuesday Mourning is my recommended book to share with the young poets in your life. I liked using Anatomy of a Poem, p. 47, to show how to annotate a poem. This analysis of George Ella Lyon's "Where I'm From" was a great introduction for motivating students to write their own "Where I'm From" poems.
Allan's book, The Blood-Hungry Spleen and Other Poems About Our Parts, was also a hit in my middle school sixth grade classroom.
Two picture book titles by Allan Wolf were introduced to me via the book basket at the home of my three grandsons:
"Something poetic" every day is my commitment for NPM this year.
I'll spotlight a favorite
poem or book or poet or share a quote I love.
Maybe I'll
even stretch myself and occasionally write an original poem.
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