Poetree

By Elaine Pearson

Here is our 'poetree', blooming with poems selected or written by our staff and students.

It has been enormous fun discussing and choosing our poems! The students also had a go at some 'blackout poetry' with some very creative and interesting results!

National Poetry Day (New Zealand)

By Elaine Pearson

To celebrate National Poetry Day on Friday 28th August we have arranged several activities in the library. This display is to link in with the activities.

English classes have been invited to the library to spend a period looking at poems and either selecting a poem for our Poetree or doing some 'blackout poetry' (more on that later).

Molly has some great ideas for celebrating poetry on here Blog: Wrapped up in Books

Poetry Month (America)

By Inga Cain

Thanks to Inga for  sharing this display for Poetry Month - a great idea to inspire and encourage her students to try their hand at writing poetry. Here are her comments:
'All of my students will be writing poetry this month. Their biggest question is always, “What do I write about?” I tell them, “Anything!” So I created this display with odds and ends to get them thinking and included a poem I wrote'.

National Poetry Month