Poetry Month 2013




The theme of my 2013 National Poetry Month Project is 

"Common Inspiration--Uncommon Creations."

Each day in April, I featured media from the Wikimedia Commons ("a database of 16,565,065 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute"along with bits and pieces of my brainstorming and both unfinished and finished poems.

I used the media to inspire my poetry, but I invited my students to use my daily media picks to inspire any original creation: poems, stories, comics, music, videos, sculptures, drawings...anything!

READ MORE ABOUT MY THINKING BEHIND THIS PROJECT.


April 1 --  Picture of the Year 2012: European Bee Eaters

April 2 --  Featured Pictures/People: Fire Breather

April 3 --  Video: Collaboration

April 4 --  Famous Art: Le Silence

April 5 --  Audio: Wolves Howling

April 6 --  Historic Photo: Woman Fly Fishing

April 7 --  Animation: Sewing Machine

April 8 --  Picture of the Year 2011: Lake Bondhus, Norway

April 9 --  Featured Picture/Sports: Wave

April 10 -- Historic Video: Sioux Indians doing the traditional Ghost Dance

April 11 -- Famous Art: Georges Seurat's "A Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte"

April 12 -- Audio: Harp

April 13 -- Photo: Child Reading in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

April 14 -- Animation: Phases of the Moon

April 15 -- Picture of the Year 2010: Stars, Observatory, Laser

April 16 -- Photo: Barbed Wire

April 17 -- Video: Parrot Laughing

April 18 -- Historic Photo: Ansel Adams' Canyon de Chelly

April 19 -- Audio: Waves

April 20 -- Historic Photo: Map of San Antonio

April 21 -- Animation: Rubik's Cube

April 22 -- Famous Art: Vincent Van Gogh's Irises

April 23 -- Audio: Birdsong

April 24 -- Animation: Sushi Train

April 25 -- Picture of the Year 2007: Broadway Tower

April 26 -- Featured Images/Natural Phenomena: Bubble

April 27 -- Historic Photo: Workers

April 28 -- Featured Picture/Picture of the Day: Bees

April 29 -- Featured Picture: Meercats

April 30 -- Animation: Zipper and student work from the month