I started my first journals when I was in junior high. I called them my “poetry journals” because they were filled with—you guessed it—poetry. Mostly really, really dramatic rhyming poetry with titles like “Flirting with Disaster” and “Dancing with Danger.” Those journals evolved to include favorite quotes, photos, birthday cards, cartoons cut out of theContinue reading “10 Tips For Keeping a Journal”
Author Archives: Carie Juettner
Contests, Workshops, and One Very Creepy Poem
Hello and happy Thursday! I’ve got some POETRY NEWS to share with you. There’s a little something in this post for everybody—adult poets, student poets, teachers, and even lovers of horror. Student Poetry Contests Entries to the Poetry Society of Texas Student Awards are due March 1, 2016. PST offers 82 contests to students in gradesContinue reading “Contests, Workshops, and One Very Creepy Poem”
Read-A-Thon, Reviews, and a Revelation
Read-A-Thon For the past two weeks, the school where I work has been participating in the BookSpring Read-A-Thon. What’s a Read-A-Thon? It’s kind of like a marathon, except instead of running a lot, you read a lot, and instead of sweating a lot, you earn money to buy books for local children who don’t haveContinue reading “Read-A-Thon, Reviews, and a Revelation”
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