Poetry Month is just getting started, and I hope teachers will take advantage of the many helpful links to poetry resources in 
Cheryl Lederle
's Teaching with the Library of Congress blog post, Poetry Is Everywhere at the Library of Congress!
New to me was this link to Screen-Free Poetry: Searching for Sound and Rhythm. On the morning after the 2022 Grammy Awards, it seems appropriate, don't you think? (This is also the kind of idea that's easy to pull out for substitute teacher plans.)
Maybe it spoke to me because just now I'm watching two squirrels chasing each other crazily around backyard tree trunks.
Squirrel scritch scratched scattering scattering seeds
Pattering, chattering, mad-hattering in trees
Cross hatch, no match, racing riot rustles oak leaves
What's your favorite idea from Cheryl's post?
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The cats and I watch the squirrels in the Oaks here in California too. Perfect rhythmic poem for that 
Mary Johnson! It also made me think about the album What’s that sound? - Collecting images for thinking about sound and what poetry might be created from thinking about these or other primary sources.
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