Write a Poem a Day for National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month, sponsored by Academy of American Poets and other poetry organizations. ReadWriteThink includes links to poetry lesson plans, websites, and classroom activities on the calendar entry for April 1.

I wondered, however, if we had enough resources on the site to write a different kind of poetry every day. I began with student interactives and then hit the site’s search engine to come up with the list below.

Each day has a link to a different kind of poetry writing, either a specific poetic form, like sonnets or acrostics, or poetry focused on a particular topic, like seasonal haiku or color poems. The materials range in grade levels, but could usually be adapted for any age (even college students).

So here’s the challenge for you and students: I found a different poem for every day of the month. How many different poems can you write?

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
					1: Acrostic Poems	2: Seasonal Haiku
3: Nonsense Poems	4: Catalog Poems	5: Bio- Poems	6: I-Am Poems	7: Shape Poems	8: Riddle Poems	9: Nursery Rhymes
10: Color Poems	11: Two- Voice Poetry	12: Headline Poems	13: Diamante Poems	14: Rebus Poems	15: Parody Poems	16: One-Sentence Poems
17: Name Poem	18: Magnetic Poetry	19: Letter Poem Creator	20: Bilingual, Spoken-Word Poetry	21: 5Ws Poems	22: Free Verse	23: Alphabet Poems
24: Concrete Poems	25: Found Poems & Parallel Poems	26: Cinquain Poems	27: Limericks	28: Traditional Sonnets	29: Astronomy Poetry	30: Sports Poetry

 

Cross-posted to the NCTE Community ReadWriteThink.org Group and the Reading and Language Arts Group on the Thinkfinity Community.

 

[Photo: Magnetic Fridge Poetry by Minimalist Photography, on Flickr]