What to Read Wendesday

It's Thursday. I'm a day behind. Two posts. Here we go!

What to Read Wednesday!

It's Poetry Cafe week in the High School Library, so let's celebrate National Library Week and National Poetry month with a few cool poetry selections.

If you want to write your own, which some of you did at the Cafe today (thanks Wayne for poeming about this blog!) check this book out:

How to write poetry by Paul B. Janeczko.
Call # 808 JAN

It provides practical advice with checklists on the art of writing poetry.











If you would like to memorize a poem, like Mrs. Weiner or Clare, perhaps pick one form this book:

The 100 best poems of all time edited by Leslie Pockell.
Call # 808.81 100

It's a collection of one hundred poems by one hundred poets, arranged in roughly chronological order of the author's birth, from the ninth century B.C.E. to the late twentieth century .




 
 
 
  If I get my way, we'll have a visit from this poet next school year. We have almost all of his books in the library.
 
Comets, stars, the moon, and Mars : space poems and paintings by Douglas Florian
Call # 811 FLO
 

If you are feeling saucy, or perhaps you were a little sassy you need to check out:

This is just to say : poems of apology and forgiveness by Joyce Sidman.

A collection of poems written by a number of sixth-grade students who write poems of apology to someone, and a collection of responses in poetry form.