April is National Poetry Month
Poetry comes in many different styles. No matter what your taste is, there is a poem for you. Poetry can be serious and thoughtful, or humorous and fun. Poems can be in the form of ballads, sonnets,...
View ArticleLimerick Day and Edward Lear’s 200th Birthday
Edward Lear (May 12, 1812 – January 29, 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet. He is renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, both in poetry and prose, and especially...
View ArticleWalt Whitman “Leaves of Grass” (1855)
Walt Whitman, one of the great American poets, published his volume of poetry titled Leaves of Grass on this date in 1855. Whitman was one of the first generation of Americans who were born in the...
View ArticleVirgil, the Roman Poet
October 15th in the year 70 BC was the birth day of Virgil, the Roman epic poet and poet laureate under Emperor Augustus. World Poetry Day used to be observed on this date until 1999 when UNESCO (the...
View ArticleEmily Dickinson
I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know! The poet Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 to a prominent family in...
View ArticleRudyard Kipling’s Birthday (1865)
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He is mostly remembered for his poems and stories about British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling was...
View ArticlePlaying with Poetry
April is National Poetry Month! Poetry is an art form, just like painting or singing. Poetry comes in many different styles. No matter what your taste is, there is a poem for you. Poetry can be serious...
View ArticleFree e-book: Home & Family Poems
If homeschoolers had a “Poet Laureate,” it surely would be the early 20th century poet Edgar Guest! He wrote about the joys of home and family, motherhood and fatherhood, the virtues of honest labor...
View ArticleCelebrate National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month! Poetry is an art form, just like painting or singing. Poetry comes in many different styles. No matter what your taste is, there is a poem for you. Poetry can be serious...
View ArticleFree Ebook: Home and Family Poems
If homeschoolers had a “Poet Laureate,” it surely would be the early 20th century poet Edgar Guest! He wrote about the joys of home and family, motherhood and fatherhood, the virtues of honest labor...
View ArticleLearn American History through Literature
What So Proudly We Hail: Literary-based curricula made simple. History lessons made memorable. What So Proudly We Hail (www.whatsoproudlywehail.org) is your one-stop source for free, literary-based...
View ArticleCelebrate the 20th Anniversary of National Poetry Month
April 2016 is the 20th anniversary of National Poetry Month! Poetry comes in many different styles. No matter what your taste is, there is a poem for you. Poetry can be serious and thoughtful, or...
View ArticlePoetry Workshop
Poetry is an art form, just like painting or singing. There are poems in all of us just waiting to be coaxed onto paper. Are you a poet and don’t know it? Try these activities and find out!...
View ArticleVirgil, the Roman Poet
October 15th in the year 70 BC was the birth day of Virgil, the Roman epic poet and poet laureate under Emperor Augustus. World Poetry Day used to be observed on this date until 1999 when UNESCO (the...
View ArticleEmily Dickinson
I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know! The poet Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 to a prominent family in...
View ArticleRudyard Kipling’s Birthday (1865)
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He is mostly remembered for his poems and stories about British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling was...
View ArticlePlaying with Poetry
April is National Poetry Month! Poetry is an art form, just like painting or singing. Poetry comes in many different styles. No matter what your taste is, there is a poem for you. Poetry can be serious...
View ArticleFree e-book: Home & Family Poems
If homeschoolers had a “Poet Laureate,” it surely would be the early 20th century poet Edgar Guest! He wrote about the joys of home and family, motherhood and fatherhood, the virtues of honest labor...
View ArticleCelebrate National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month! Poetry is an art form, just like painting or singing. Poetry comes in many different styles. No matter what your taste is, there is a poem for you. Poetry can be serious...
View ArticleFree Ebook: Home and Family Poems
If homeschoolers had a “Poet Laureate,” it surely would be the early 20th century poet Edgar Guest! He wrote about the joys of home and family, motherhood and fatherhood, the virtues of honest labor...
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