Poetry Friday Round Up

Welcome, Poetry Friday Revelers. Poetry Friday is here this week!

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National Poetry Month is coming up soon. Many of the Poetry Friday bloggers are planning special treats and projects. Here at Author Amok, we're getting dressed up for the occasion. During the month of April, I'll be featuring poetry about clothes. Why clothes? Read more here.

Thanks to all of you who offered to guest post for this series.

Wednesday 4/1: Guest Post by J. C. Elkin

Friday 4/3: Guest Post by Tabatha Yeatts Lonske and poem round up

Monday 4/6: Guest Post by Margaret Simon

Wednesday 4/8: Guest Post by Robyn Hood Black

Friday 4/10: Guest Post TBA and poem round up

Monday 4/13: Guest Post Heidi Mordhorst

Wednesday 4/15: Guest Post by Linda Baie

Friday 4/17: Guest Post by Catherine Johnson and poem round up

Monday 4/20: Guest Post by Robyn Campbell
Wednesday 4/22; Guest Post by Donna Smith
Friday 4/24: Guest Post by  Jan Godown Annino and poem round up
Monday 4/27: Guest Post by Linda Kulp
Wednesday 4/29: Project wrap up

Clothes can be a powerful symbol for how we navigate culture and society. Here is a wonderful poem by my teacher, Maria Mazziotti Gillan

SHAME IS THE DRESS I WEAR

On the first day of school, my mother slips a dark blue
dress over my head, ties the starched sash. Zia Louisa and
Zio Guillermo have come down the back steps to our
apartment to see me setting off. They don’t have children

of their own and Zio Guillermo is my godfather, so they are
a big part of our lives. My mother has starched this cotton
dress handed down from Zia Christiana’s late in life
daughter, Zia Christiana who has enough money to buy

lots of pretty dresses for her red-headed daughter and also
throw chickens into the garbage that year when my father
was sick and couldn’t work so we lived on farina and
spaghetti. When my mother was dying, she talked about

seeing those discarded chickens and about being too
ashamed to ask for them. Anyway, I’m standing on that
wooden kitchen chair, my mother tugging at the dress,
my hair formed into sausage curls that my mother curled

by wrapping my thick dark hair in white rags, my eyes
enormous in my long, thin face. Zia Louisa stands back,
shakes her head and says, Why didn’t you get her a better
color? This dress that both my mother and I were proud of

until my aunt’s comment pointed out what should have
been obvious, that this dark blue color, perfect for a redhead
made my olive skin look jaundiced. I could almost
feel the starched skirt deflate. Sometimes I think that little

girl in her navy dress has followed me my whole life

Read the rest at Rattle.

From Old Navy

Thanks for joining the poetry party this week, everyone! 

Blogging in our jammies:

At Kurious Kitty, Diane Mayr reminds us that tomorrow is Pi Day (3/14/15), the only time this century that the date extends to four decimal points of this mathematical constant. She has a meditative math poemby Ira Sadoff for the occasion. At Random Noodling, Diane has some fun videos to accompany her responses to Heidi Mordhorst's CH words challenge.

Carmela Martino is in with a post from Teaching Authors. She says, "I want to share a link from my co-blogger April Halprin Wayland. Her post will be about how she uses the library--why she loves her library for writing in a quiet space and for audiobooks. She's included an original poem called IT'S NOT QUIET IN THE LIBRARY. (It's about listening...if you listen, there are many sounds in the library!)"

Linda Kulp at Write Time is sharing Lullaby & Kisses Sweet with her granddaughter, Evie, who was inspired to write her own poem. What a great post about how a young reader becomes immersed in a book.

Steven Withrow has a powerful original poem, "Refugee Camp," at Crackles of Speech.

The Friday Feast at Jama Rattigan's Alphabet Soup, is Kathi Appelt's new rhyming picture book, Counting Crows. This week's recipe, Raspberry Cheesecake Brownies.

Have you been following Penny Klosterman's collaborative series, "A Great  Nephew and a Great Aunt"? Episode 11 posts today with a clever teatime poem from Penny and Landon's accompanying illustration. 

Speaking of T, Michelle Heidenrich Barnes of Today's Little Ditty says, "Today I have a bit of a hodge podge post – Tanka, TOASTS, and Total Madness. But it does include a giveaway!"

Many of our Poetry Friday regulars are participating in Ed DeCaria's March Madness, which got underway this week. Buffy Silverman is featuring her first round poem today. Buffy's word was "megolomaniacal." Ack!

Gathering Books has a beautiful poem about grief by Iphigene. Stop by and send her a virtual hug.

There's lots of news to report at Charles Waters' Poetry Time. Charles also shares two recent poems, one from the Author Amok sound poetry project (cackling lava) and another from Heidi Mordhorst's CH word daily poem challenge (strrreeetch).

Getting dressed for the day...

At Teacher Dance,  Linda Baie has an original poem in memory of her grandfather. It's a little ode to Friday the 13th and other superstitions.

Catherine at Reading to the Core has a lovely found poem from Louise Erdrich's novel The Birchbark House. 

Donna Smith of  Mainely Write is playing along with Heidi Mordhorst's CH word challenge. She has a clever concrete poem for the word ARCH.

Did you know it was National Cereal Day this week? Matt Forrest Esenwine blogs about that (can we have a CRUNCH day, Heidi?) and the new Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations. Visit Radio, Rhythm, and Rhyme. 

Julie Larios tells us, "It's Neil Sedaka's birthday today, so over at the Drift Record I've got the lyrics to one of stranger hits from the 1960's, and an embedded video of him singing "Calendar Girl" that is possibly one of the worst music videos ever made. Or maybe just one of the weirdest?" The fireworks headdress is a must-see. Yikes.

If you live in Arizona, Joy reports that the Tucson Book Festival is tomorrow and Sunday. "I'm excited to be going. Lots of great workshops, panels and presentations to attend." Joy has a Friday the 13th poem at Poetry for Kids Joy.

Tabatha's post this week features excerpts by Howard Nemerov (a beautiful ekphrastic poem) and Ralph Salisbury. You'll find that at The Opposite of Indifference.

Mary Lee at A Reading Year says "Shame Is the Dress I Wear" is "a perfect fit for my Poetry Month project -- PO-EMotions -- which I am announcing today! I'm going to be writing poems about emotions." Stop by Mary Lee's blog to check out the announcement and her original poem, using the word ARCH for Heidi's MarCH CHallenge.

And Miss Juicy Universe herself, Heidi Mordhorst, is of course hosting the poem-a-day project so many of us are participating in, the Forward MarCH CHallenge. Today's word is "arCH" and Heidi already has some fine contributions!

It's that dreaded time of year: standardized testing season. Carol of Carol's Corner is in with a poem, now that her school has finished PARCC testing -- a good reminder that life (and school) is about our connections with other people, not test scores.

I've heard of Dueling Banjos, but not dueling odes! Margaret Simon of Reflections on the Teche is in a battle of the verse with her student. Who will be the winner? The ode to the sun or the ode to the moon?

At A Teaching Life, Tara Smith is featuring Poetry Friday's own Laura Purdie Salas, with a poem about coming to the end of a great book.

Thift stores are great places for finding things. Irene Latham is sharing a poem found at a thrift store: "I Love Old Things" by Wilson MacDonald.

Let's all welcome Poetry Friday newbies Darla Salay and Jen Brittin! You'll find their very first PF post, with two original poems about writing, at Two Writers. 

I love it when poets try and experiment with traditional forms. Tricia has a new sestina at the Miss Rumphius Effect.  The six words she selected for the poem are: sense/cents, turn, up, wind, break/brake, rays/raise/raze.

Putting on our slippers (or dancing shoes ... it IS Friday night):

Ready for spring? Becky Shillington welcomes the season with an original haiku.

Alex Baugh at Randomly Reading is getting in on the spring thing with a Wordsworth poem, "Written in March." Wordsworth compares snow to a retreating army!

At Pleasures from the Page, Ramona has a poem about the joy of discovering a new book. In this case, Paul B. Janeczko's latest: The Death of the Hat: A Brief History of Poetry in 50 Objects. "The Death of the Hat" sounds like a clothing poem to me.

There's a Carl Sandburg quote at Bildungsroman today.

I hope Catherine Johnson is not welcoming more snow with her limerick about a snowman! Happy St. Patrick's Day, Catherine!

Lori Ann Grover has a beautiful evening haiku "Crimson Blush" at her blog, On Point. Interested in learning more about The Death of the Hat? Lori also has a post about Janeczko's new book at Readertotz.

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater says, "Over at The Poem Farm (finally!) I have a little poem about how to become friends with a dog." How-to poems are another great form to try. Sam the Schnauzer sends you a woof of appreciation, Amy.

But enough about dogs, at All About the Books with Janet Squires, Janet is sharing the book "If Not For The Cat: Haiku" by Jack Prelutsky with paintings by Ted Rand.

Get a pre-National Poetry Month sneak peek of student poems at Jone MacCulloch's Check It Out. Jone also invites us all to sign up for an NPM poetry postcard from her talented students.

HUGE CONGRATS to PF blogger Kelly Fineman, whose book of poetry for adults launches today!! Kelly is sharing a poem from THE UNIVERSE COMES KNOCKING, entitled "Scientifically Speaking." Woo hoo, Kelly! 

At Flukeprints you'll find a link to the post "How to Host an Author at your School." Mrs. Doele's third grade class was lucky enough to have a visit with our own Amy Ludwig VanDerWater's last month.

Good morning!

For early risers and dawn-catchers, Cathy at Merely Day by Day has an original poem to greet the day: A Million Sunrises.

Loria Carter is sharing a video clip of Maya Angelou's "Life Doesn't Frighten Me At All" -- her hope for all the children of the world. 

Carol Varsalona at Beyond LiteracyLink tells us about Digital Learning Day 2015, which was March 13th. Carol also has an original, architectural poem for Heidi's word of the day "ARCH."

Friendly Fairy Tales has "Sound of Spring," an original poem by Brenda. Let's all recite Brenda's lines about the thawing snow to help bring on the warm weather.

Time to put on our jammies and dream of poetry, bloggers. Thank you for coming to the party and sharing your love of words and language with everyone.

Source Poems: "Daddy"

For National Poetry Month 2014, I have invited 17 authors and poets to guest post about source poems. In this series of essays, each writer will describe a single poem's significance in his or her life.

Poet Renee LaTulippe of the blog No Water River is with us today, writing about how receiving a book of poetry as a gift can change one's life.

Renée M. LaTulippe

Sylvia Saves the Day

I did not have a terribly literary childhood. There was definitely no poetry beyond nursery rhymes. But my mother did always have a book going and my father sang constantly, so perhaps something sunk in and made me write my first poem at age seven. It’s a night I remember vividly and that I wrote about here. I guess poetry was just in me.

And it stayed in me through high school; or rather, it kept coming out of me, free verse tumbling down page after page. It was the only time in my life I was prolific. But I wasn’t very good at it, this poetry thing, despite Mrs. Musser’s enthusiasm as my creative writing teacher. And despite the reams of juvenilia, she made me the youngest editor of the literary magazine; she encouraged me and praised me; she held me up. And when I graduated, she gave me the complete works of Sylvia Plath. The woman knew me; who knew? The book is a prized possession.

When Laura announced this blog series, I knew immediately the poem I would choose. I didn’t have to riffle through my bookshelves or my memory for The Poem, because it has been there for thirty years.

Would I have preferred a more positive poem, something full of innocence or beauty or peace? Yes, but that would have been dishonest.

My source poem is “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath and there’s nothing I can do about it.

DADDY

BY SYLVIA PLATH

You do not do, you do not do   

Any more, black shoe

In which I have lived like a foot   

For thirty years, poor and white,   

Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Daddy, I have had to kill you.   

You died before I had time——

Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,   

Ghastly statue with one gray toe   

Big as a Frisco seal

And a head in the freakish Atlantic   

Where it pours bean green over blue   

In the waters off beautiful Nauset.   

I used to pray to recover you.

Ach, du.

In the German tongue, in the Polish town   

Scraped flat by the roller

Of wars, wars, wars.

But the name of the town is common.   

My Polack friend

Says there are a dozen or two.   

So I never could tell where you   

Put your foot, your root,

I never could talk to you.

The tongue stuck in my jaw.

It stuck in a barb wire snare.   

Ich, ich, ich, ich,

I could hardly speak.

I thought every German was you.   

And the language obscene

Read the rest at the Poetry Foundation

I opened this book and read page after page until “Daddy” stopped me in my tracks. I could not make head or tails of the poem at the time, but no matter. I knew what it felt like, and it felt like liberation. It had crazy sounds and German and a bad word that were like bonbons in my mouth. How I loved the Panzer-man and the brute, brute force of a brute like you and that glorious bastard! I loved the persistent low moan of the long U sounds, the sounds of a poet doubled over from the violence of it all.

You do not do, you do not do   

Any more, black shoe

In which I have lived like a foot   

For thirty years, poor and white,   

Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

I loved it not because I loved the suffering, but because I loved the exit from suffering. I loved the anger of it. I loved the anthem of it. It was a poem full of viper bites. Speaking it was powerful and cathartic. It was better than breaking dishes. It roiled and soothed all at once. Like singing, it lifted me up, even in its negativity. The rhythms and phrases entered my memory and have been there ever since.

I saw, and still see, the poem as a reinvention of self, a rebirth – a concept I’ve always liked, perhaps because it’s what my name means: reborn. Renaissance. A poem of possibility. Negative but hopeful.

There’s a stake in your fat black heart   

And the villagers never liked you.

They are dancing and stamping on you.   

They always knew it was you.

Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through. 

Perhaps “Daddy” resonated because it came to me when I most needed it, at a time of breaking out and becoming and trying not to explode in the process. And Sylvia was there to give me what she had: An exquisite anger. A spitting release.

Ah, Sylvia. Ach, du.

Sylvia Plath
from Harper Collins

Renée M. LaTulippe has co-authored nine early readers and a collection of children’s poetry titled Lizard Lou: a collection of rhymes old and new for All About Learning Press, where she is also the editor, and has poems in the Middle School and Science editions of The Poetry Friday Anthology (ed. Wong and Vardell). She developed and teaches the online course The Lyrical Language Lab: Punching Up Prose with Poetry and blogs on children’s poetry at NoWaterRiver.com. Renée earned her BFA in acting/directing from Marymount Manhattan College and her MA in English Education from NYU, and taught English, theater, and public speaking in NYC. She lives in Italy with her husband and twin boys. Website: www.NoWaterRiver.com. Follow Renée on Twitter: @ReneeMLaTulippe

Previous posts in this series:

Laura Shovan on "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams

Dylan Bargteil on "On Moral Leadership as a Political Dilemma" by June Jordan

J. C. Elkin on "Hannibal Clim" (author unknown)

Diane Mayr on a haiku by Basho

Jone MacCulloch on "We Are Waiting (a pantoum)" by Joyce Sidman

Mary Bargteil on Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot

Jacqueline Jules on "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes

Pamela Murray Winters on "The Land of Counterpane" by Robert Louis Stevenson

Dennis Kirschbaum on "Rain" by Robert Louis Stevenson
Janet Fagal on "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats

Linda Baie on "The Way It Is" by William Stafford

Pat Valdata on "Sea Fever" by John Masefield

Shirley Brewer on "The Singers" by Eavan Boland

National Poetry Month 2013: Teens in the TechnoVerse

It's the last day of April and I'm saying TGIM. (Thank God It's May.) I should have known when I began a series on the TechnoVerse that life would go into Warp Drive this month.

When April 2013 began, my family was in Florida for spring break. In the last 30 days, we have:

visited The Wizarding World of Harry Potter;

On line for Olivander's.

celebrated a first birthday;

sent one kid off to California for a robotics world championship;

taught poetry in two elementary schools;

Fifth graders writing portrait poems in response to fine art.

got sick and missed a week of middle school, but

the show must go on (stage managed "The Little Mermaid" at said middle school);

sent Dad off to Nashville for a business trip;

various and sundry other joys and minor disasters.

As I am learning, this is a typical month when you have two teenage children. My teens are tech-buffs. They do their homework on laptops, watch anime in their spare time, and spend too much time on Reddit.

For them, and for the teens in your life, here is a great teen-focused poetry website.

http://www.powerpoetry.org/

PowerPoetry.Org -- "Write Your Own Life Story" bills itself as the largest mobile teen poetry community in the TechnoVerse.

A lovely lady, Alyce Myatta, from the NEA (which sponsors another great teen poetry program, Poetry Out Loud) tipped me off about this site. This is a place for young poets to upload and share their original writing. They are encouraged to browse through their peers' poetry and vote or leave comments.

There are great inspiration resources at PowerPoetry such as "5 Tips for Writing and Ode Poem" and "6 Tips for Writing about Music." Kids can learn how to make a multimedia poem, get hooked up with the local slam scene, even find an adult poet to be their online mentor.

But I especially love what comes up when I click a tab entitled "Why Write a Poem": 

"Every one of us has a story that is completely our own by virtue of the fact that each of us is unique and has an ever expanding collection of experience that are particular to the lives we lead.

"Simply put, no one is like you.

"Poetry is the means which we can express ourselves, it’s a way to vent, and to make sense of the world, to tell our stories in our own words."

Quoted from PowerPoetry.Org

Teachers, there is a spot on this site for you, too. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on EDUCATORS. You'll find out how to start a PowerPoetry group at your school.

Despite all the drama at home, I've had a great month exploring the TechnoVerse with all of you. Kudos to our excellent guest bloggers! You have all expanded my tech-tools and my thinking about how I can use technology to be a better, more organized writer. (Yes, even you, Dennis Kirschbaum.)

This month, I've experimented with SoundCloud, downloaded Scrivener, felt overwhelmed by Pinterest, revisited an email poem about seamonkeys in my underpants (it's a long story).

If you're not ready to say goodbye to the TechnoVerse yet, here is a full list of the posts in this series:

Invitation to the TechnoVerse (Monday 4/1)

Gloson Teh Compares Writing Poetry with Writing Code (Tuesday 4/2)

Linda Baie apps for inspiration  (Wednesday 4/3)

Barbara Morrison on Scrivener (Thursday 4/4)

Scott Slaby advises students with a text sonnet (Friday 4/5)

Danuta Hinc compares online poetry translations (Monday 4/8)

Carol Munro writes poetry with a friend via email (Tuesday 4/9)

Dennis Kirschbaum is a lovable Luddite (Wednesday 4/10)

Regina Sokas on global connections (Thursday 4/11)

April Halprin Wayland on RhymeWeaver.Com (Friday 4/12)

Amy Ludwig Vanderwater on SoundCloud& Pinterest (Monday 4/15)

Ken Ronkowitz  of Poets Online (Tuesday 4/16)

Moira Egan looks at the tech side of Sonnets (Wednesday 4/17)

Gregory Luce on Poetry Foundation’s Walking Tour of DC Poetry (Thursday 4/18)

Christine Amyot Hurley on tech based poetry projects for kids (Friday 4/19)

Irene Latham's Progressive Poem stops at Author Amok (Monday 4/22)

Diane Mayr explains Archive.Org (Tuesday 4/23)

Kay Weeks tests out a random poetry generator (Wednesday 4/24)

Clarinda Harriss uses texting errors to compose poems (Thursday 4/25)

Debbie Levy replaces her Roget's with Dictionary App (Friday 4/26)

Ann Bracken takes us to Tweetspeak Poetry (Monday 4/29)

TechnoVerse wrap up & PowerPoetry.Org for teens (Tuesday 4/30)

I am happily powering down the warp engines, everyone. If you'd like, leave a comment about the recommended apps, websites and programs you've tried as a result of our series.

Good luck as your school years wind down. It's been one for the yearbooks!

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National Poetry Month 2013: Tweetspeaking with Ann Bracken

It's our final two days in the TechnoVerse -- that place where technology and poetry intersect. It's time for me to made a confession. I like technology. Like. Not love.

A full list of TechnoVerse posts is here.

I draft new work on my laptop. I have a smart phone. There are two of me on Facebook: Laura the poet and literary community activist, and Laura who posts pictures of the kids for friends and family. For me, technology is definitely more of a tool than a love affair.

My 13-year-old daughter has been trying to teach me a "new" social media platform, Google Plus. The layout doesn't feel compatible with my brain. Isn't having two Facebook accounts being social enough? Retreating from online socializing is probably the reason I have never tried Twitter.

"Listen to me, don't listen to me!"
(Twittery lyrics from David Bowie.)

Today, my dear friend Ann Bracken shares one of her favorite poetry blogs: Tweetspeak Poetry. I won't be scared off by the title. According to Ann, there is no tweeting required at the Tweetspeak blog. It's a friendly site with great poetry & technology resources.

Tweetspeak Poetry: the best in poetry and poetic things

http://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/

Contributed by: Ann Bracken

Why would someone who doesn’t even have a Twitter account be drawn to a blog called Tweetspeak Poetry?  That’s the question I had to ask myself when a good friend of mine sent me a link to the site a few months ago. But I trust this friend who is an inspired poet—I knew she must be on to something, so I clicked on the link in the email and entered the serene poetic space called Tweetspeak. Unlike the hurried tweets I often hear on the radio, this site beckons you to slow down and tempts you to linger while you browse its array of resources.  Grab a cup of java, snuggle in your favorite chair, and I’ll take you on a tour of this week’s featured posts.

Poetry (by T.S. Eliot) from This Day in Quotes.

Where does poetry fit into your workday? Most people would shake their heads at the juxtaposition of poetry and work, but Tweetspeak has an entire feature section called Poetry at Work.  This week’s topic—The Poetry of an Organizational Chart—seemed to spring from the creativity game of finding two things that are unrelated and then  imagining all the possible connections they could share.  The author, Glynn Young, remembers when he worked for two large corporations that each employed over 30,000 people. He remembers the organizational charts that were part of every employee’s handbook because they held the secrets of the corporate hierarchy. Like a well-structured poem, “…organization charts followed rules, patterns and accepted practice. They had an interior rationale; they made sense for both themselves and the organization.” Although I only vaguely remember seeing an organizational chart at one of my early jobs, I resonate with the poetic concepts of internal structure, form, and order. Young goes on to compare the formal organizational structures of business in the late 20^th century to the “free verse” that is the networked environment of the 21^st century, both of which have esteemed places in the world of poetry.  As with any change, the challenge we face at work seems to be defined by how deftly we weave the best of the old with the best of the new.

After I explored poetry at work, I look a look at this month’s book club selection because it features one of my favorite books on poetry writing, Poemcrazy by Susan Wooldridge. 

Read about it at Goodreads.

I decided to read the post on following words—the daily practice that Wooldridge recommends—where you spend some time each day focusing on all the details of a particular activity or object. What is written on those slips of paper stuck in your journal? How do your fingertips look after you dig in the rich soil of early spring? What does the smoke from the fire smell like? She reminds us that the feelings in a poem come alive because of the poet’s focus on the details. Wooldridge urges us to play with words every day, to dive into the “wordpool,” collections of words borrowed from “poems, books, and conversations.”  When we play in the “wordpool,” we can make up words, juxtapose interesting combinations of words and free ourselves from the worry of making sense. Wooldridge concludes by confessing, “And I don’t worry about whether or not I’m writing “a poem.” Word pool. World pool, wild pool, whippoorwill, swing.”  I’m inspired to find my box of word tickets and play this weekend.

           

Besides the Poetry at Work and Book Club sections, Tweetspeak’s current features include The Top 10 Poetic Pics, The Poetry Classroom, 7 Fun Shakespeare Resources, and Carry a Shield: Ten Good Books About Dragons.  Make sure you scroll to the bottom of the page for the very last drop of inspiration-The Video Pick of the Week, featuring a video montage tribute to Vincent Van Gogh with Jane Olive singing “Starry Night.”  

Buy this Celtic dragon shield at Etsy.

Ann Bracken is a writer, poet, educator, and expressive arts consultant whose poetry, essays, and interviews have appeared in Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence, Reckless Writing Anthology: Emerging Poets of the 21^st Century, Little Patuxent Review, Life in Me Like Grass on Fire: Love Poems, Praxilla, The Museletter, and The Gunpowder Review. Her company, The Possibility Project, offers expressive arts programs for women of all ages. Ann was nominated for the 2014 Pushcart Prize and she is a lecturer in the Professional Writing Program at the University of Maryland.

I've got one last poetry website to share as we wrap up National Poetry Month 2013 in the TechnoVerse. We'll be checking out a site where teen poets can share their work in multiple platforms. Until then, happy writing.