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