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National Poetry Month

April 8, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Take 5: Entries into Poetry

Poetry is weird and hard. It’s confusing and vague and boring. Unless it’s not.  Here are five easy entries to poetry for teens, in honor of National Poetry Month. 1. After The Kiss by Terra Elan McVoy It looks like realistic romantic teen fiction, it moves like realistic romantic teen fiction, it IS realistic romantic teen […]

April 12, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

TPiB: Poetry Crafts!

Like a lot of Middle and High School students, I started writing angsty teenage poetry with the best of them.  And I love doing National Poetry Month (April) activities with my tweens and teens.  Actually, you can read some of my poetry as I wrote a few poems as part of the awareness campaign for […]

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