Re: poetry idea to remember

["Mary Tigner-Rasanen" <mtr.listserves@marylily.org>]

at our school, i put a pair of pants on a poster with poems for people to 
take. we also had 4 drawings - one each week - for $25 barnes and noble gift 
certificates. students in my advanced writing and poetry classes asked 
students if they had poems in their pockets, and if they did, they were 
entered in the drawing.

mary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marji Morris" <mlmsoar@hotmail.com>
To: "middle-lit" <middle-lit@interversity.org>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 3:18 PM
Subject: [middle-lit] poetry idea to remember


I just got this from poets.corg  It's a little late to use this year, but I 
thought it had lots of possibilities. Thought I'd pass it along in case you 
hadn't seen it.


Poems In Pockets: National Poetry Month 2008
April 17 marked the first national Poem In Your Pocket Day. The event, 
celebrated in New York City for the past six years, caught on in schools, 
universities, bookstores, libraries, and workplaces across the nation. In 
Bishop, California, Spellbinder Books offered a free homemade cookie to any 
customer with a poem in pocket to share. In Gambier, Ohio, students fixed 
poems to a clothesline for students and professors to take on their way to 
class. At the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., a lunch reading of 
was held live and on the web. View more stories, photographs, and highlights 
on Poets.org and submit your own to: npm@poets.org.
On the web at: www.poets.org/pocket

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