The Favorite Poem Project, now in its 27th year, began with the idea that poems mean something deeply to Americans.
This is something many of us agree on but rarely have a place to discuss. So, let’s gather & share.
#FavoritePOemProject #PoetryMonth
Defending Diverse Voices: Four Best-Selling Authors Talk Banned Books
"Ms. Classroom wants to hear from educators and students being impacted by legislation attacking public education, higher education, gender, race and sexuality studies, activism and social justice in education, and diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Cue: a new series from Ms., ‘Banned! Voices from the Classroom.’ Submit pitches and/or op-eds and reflections (between 500-800 words) to Ms. contributing editor Aviva Dove-Viebahn at adove-viebahn@msmagazine.com. Posts will be accepted on a rolling basis."
"Black literature has long been a target of censorship efforts in America, with coordinated efforts spanning back to at least the Harlem Renaissance. However, the current mania infecting anti-Critical Race Theory adherents has created a new wave of book bannings targeting Black authors, characters, and perspectives.
“Black writers have been feared for precisely their ability to highlight the injustices of American society with clarity, lyricism, and urgency.” – ACLU Massachusetts
Build or Support a Little Free(dom) Library
"The nonprofit Visit Philadelphia, “the region’s official leisure tourism marketing agency,” has joined forces with Little Free Library to bring locals and tourists to the Little Free(dom) Library to celebrate Black History Month. According to Penn America, Black authors have been at a disadvantage when it comes to reaching a wide range of readers since over 30 states have removed certain books penned by Black authors. To help keep Black history and storytellers alive, the Little Free(dom) Library has made these forbidden books available in 13 locations throughout Philadelphia until Feb. 28. In addition, 1,500 free books will be given away at one of the pop-up book stands."
Unite Against Book Bans organization.
Book Bans: An Act of Policy Violence Promoting Anti-Blackness By Dr. Phelton Moss / NAACP
"What is more violent, as evidenced by the books they are banning, they choose to censor the teaching of the factually accurate history of Black people. These violent acts are rooted in an un-yielding legacy of racism, prejudice, oppression, and anti-blackness."
Research & Reports on book bannings. Page includes a TAKE ACTION button.
PEN America tracks all book bans in libraries and classrooms across the U.S. in our Index of School Book Bans, updated for the 2022-2023 school year. What is PEN Ameica? "PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world. Our mission is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible.
How African-American Museums Are Navigating Book Bans
"According to Vedet Coleman-Robinson, executive director of the Association of African American Museums (AAAM), cultural institutions are stepping in to fill the gaps with uncensored and community-oriented programming."
10 Banned Black Books You Should Be Reading.Essence Magazine.
More than 1,600 books were banned in 138 school districts across 32 states between 2021 and 2022, according to a report by PEN America. The vast majority of challenged and banned books feature BIPOC or LGBTQ+ characters, discuss gender, sexuality, and race in America, or are written by Black and POC authors.
Poetry in the Quad Table Signs (800 x 800 px) by rhondakwrites
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Picnic blankets & snack picnic. Your only concern is to CREATE! We provide notebooks, pens, and inspiration.Just bring YOU!
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LGBTQAI+We will have LGBTQAI+ themed mad lib worksheets for students to be creative, have fun, and learn about the culture! This activity is more light-hearted and silly. We will also have a display with a prompt for students to anonymously respond with their thoughts/feelings/ideas about gender identity. This is a collaborative writing piece for everyone to share in a deeper, thought-provoking activity. We will also have a lot of poetry for students to just lay out and read if they wish! We strive to make this a safe space for all to come, relax, have fun, and just be who they are. Jesse & Tyler
LIMERICKSFun. Silly. Lyrical. Jennifer
M.E.Ch.AiPoesía! M.E.Ch.A. students invite you to stop by the pyramid table to select and use words to express, learn, share, describe, and create your original poema Moses Lake Museum & Art CenterCreate Redacted Poetry! Dollie |
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Tarot (and other cards) for Creative WritingTAROT and other methods of finding prompts for writing. Take a creative challenge! Learn how to create your own game of chance to spur creativity. Rhonda
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Poetry in the Quad MAIN Poetry Event Poster by rhondakwrites
Rhonda The Librarian's Reading & Research Review March Weather by rhondakwrites
"While ecocritical approaches to literary texts receive more and more attention, climate-related issues remain fairly neglected, particularly in the field of Shakespeare studies. This monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional representations and religious beliefs still fashioned people's relations to meteorological phenomena" (Chiari, 2019).
"Deemed to constitute disposable bodies, disposable cultures, disposable polities, disposable societies, disposable epistemologies, disposable religions, disposable laws and disposable economies, the sacrificed are, in the age of climate catastrophism, once again reminded that they 'have duties to die', to become extinct in order to save the global spaceship that is sinking due to climate change and global warming." -- Project Muse
"However, we are still far from fully understanding what and how causes this variability. Why does the Sun continue to go on, on a rhythmic scale, the so-called solar cycle, without damping? How to better understand the complicated relationships between the Sun, the heliosphere and the many proxies of long-term solar activity?" - From Publisher
"In the end, there is the disastrous Democratic National Convention of 1968, the driving from office of Lyndon Johnson, and the election of Richard Nixon. Gaillard quotes historian Todd Gitlin in commenting on the rise of violence and disenchantment as the decade dragged on: 'Rage was becoming the common coin of American culture (Esposito, 2018).
"Your heart traps mine as summits catch storms. Call this to calm the rain shadow. What will remain?" From poem The Same Mountain Twice.
"Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters." Publisher
References
Baker, E. (2015). A storm of witchcraft : The Salem trials and the American experience. Oxford University Press.
Bradley, N. (2018). Rain shadow. University of Alberta Press.
Chiari, S. (2019). Shakespeare’s representation of weather, climate and environment : the early modern “Fated Sky”. Edinburgh University Press.
Esposito, J. A. (2018, December 18). A hard rain: America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost [Book review]. Washington
Independent Review of Books.
Gaillard, F. (2018). A hard rain: America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost. NewSouth Books.
Mawere, M., & Nhemachena, A. (2019).Necroclimatism in a spectral world (dis)order? rain petitioning, climate and weather engineering in 21st century
Africa. Project Muse.
Rozelot, J., & Babayev, E. (2018). Variability of the sun and sun-like stars : from asteroseismology to space weather. EDP Sciences.
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