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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,...

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Limerick 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...

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Walt 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...

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Virgil, 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...

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Emily 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...

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Rudyard 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...

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Playing 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...

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Free 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...

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Celebrate 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...

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Free 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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Learn 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...

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Celebrate 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...

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Poetry 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!...

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Virgil, 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...

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Emily 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...

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Rudyard 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...

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Playing 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...

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Free 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...

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Celebrate 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...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Free 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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