WriteOut
It’s time for the October WRITEOUT adventure, October 13 through the 27th, partnership of the National Writing Project and the National Park Service — a chance to enjoy the outdoors with poetry, prose, and parks for Write Out 2024. Organized as a public invitation to get out and create, supported by a series of free online activities, Write Out invites educators, students, and families to explore national parks and other public spaces. The goal is to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing. Check out this infographic for the flow of the this week and the Choice Board to get you started for WriteOut’s Poetry for the Planet.
Learn more and sign up: https://writeout.nwp.org
This is my seventh year with WriteOut with all my WriteOut posts here.
From the Choice Board, I chose the Haiku and watched How to Write a Haiku from Willeena Booker, a poet and teacher consultant of the Philadelphia Writing Project so I could write this poem. We had purchased many pumpkins to brighten the front yard as summer fades away, but the mule deer also love the pumpkins and find them sweet treats. And so the poem:
Pumpkins in autumn
Sheri Edwards
Color summer’s slow leaving—
Tasty bites for deer.
Photography/Poetry
10.13.24
To find out more about WriteOut and my process for writing the poem, see my education blog post: Write Out is Now! And please join in the fun to write poetry for the planet.
I wonder, if I draw a line... 