Here's To Poets & National Poetry Month!
Tamera WIll WissingerIt’s May 3, so National Poetry Month 2013 is over, but what a month! In a minute I’ll give a recap of my month, but first, here is an tercet epigram to Poetry Month and the poets who made it happen!
Epigram to Poets & National Poetry Month
April Showers: Poetry, Crazy
May Flowers: Arising, Daze-y
Poet Wowers: All Amaze Me
© 2013 Tamera Will Wissinger
Thank you, Poets, and Academy of American Poets, for celebrating poetry month!
Here is a recap of how I spent a good part of my April:
April 1 The Writer's Whimsy: April Fools Poetry
April 5 The Writer's Whimsy: What is an Epigram?
April 7 Greg Pincus 30 Poets/#30 Days: My Limerick: The Judge of Fudge!
April 12 The Writer's Whimsy: Parody: Mockingbird of Poetry
April 17 Society of Young Inklings: Ink Splat Feature
April 18 Gabrielle Prendergast's Verse Novels: Why Write A Novel In Verse
April 18 Vero Beach Book Center: I read with first grade students for Poem In Your Pocket Day!
April 19 The Writer's Whimsy: Talking Poems
April 19 Gone Fishing with The Environmental Learning Center at Vero Beach Book Center. Here's a link to an article by Suzanne Fox about it in Vero Beach 32963 (The book and I are on page 25)
April 22 E. Kristin Anderson's Blog: The Influence of Musicals on Gone Fishing
April 22 The Lucky 13s Blog: Poetry's Influence on Middle Grade Novelists (Compiled by me.)
April 26 My first school visits with Gone Fishing!
April 26 The Writer's Whimsy: Poetry Trick: The Limerick!
April 27 Caroline Star Rose's Line by Line feature: Why Poetry Matters
April 27 The Book Stall, Winnetka, IL: I held a young poet's workshop!
April 30 Twitter: my final National Poetry Month tweet (if you don't count the one I’ll tweet today!): Good news! Even though #NationalPoetryMonth is almost over, poetry doesn’t expire! http://www.tamerawillwissinger.com/the-writers-whimsy/ … Thank you @POETSorg
That's all there is - daze-y, indeed!
Here are today’s announcements:
Elizabeth Steinglass is hosting Poetry Friday at Growing Wild
Verse Day #18 is being celebrated at Stacked Books
05.03.2013
Reader Comments (3)
"Poet Wowers: All amaze me!" What a great month you had! Thanks for sharing all the links. You are an inspiration!
Reply: Thanks, Margaret; glad you enjoyed the poem and my list!
Yowza! Now we need a nap! Great poetry this month, Tamera! Thanks for sharing your time and talents.
Reply: Love the use of Yowza, Bridget! Thanks for your good wishes here.
It was quite a month, eh?!?
Reply: Hi Mary Lee. Yes, quite a month...we were all busy, I think!