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Plans for Poetry Month

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April is poetry month, and the focus around here will be on (gasp!) verse novels. I’ve got plans, friends, and I hope you might join me!

reading goals: I plan on reading three verse novels during April, two young-adult historicals and one middle-grade contemporary.
    
blog posts: I’ll run posts reading and writing verse novels, share quotes from verse novelists, include comprehensive lists of books out there, and share my thoughts on the books above. 

your part: Want to participate? Here are a few ways you can join in:

  • Commit to reading three verse novels during April. Sign up below, linking to a blog post where you list your three titles.
  • Consider writing a guest post about verse novels. The possibilities are endless: reviews on one of your three titles, what you do or don’t like about verse novels, favorite stories in verse, quotes on poetry — anything! Though my blog has a modest following (462 through Blogger and 485 through Feedburner), guest posts are a great way to draw attention to your own blog. Email me with ideas if you’d like to participate.
  • Spread the word! If you’re reading along, be sure to link below. Talk it up through all your social media venues. Let readers know verse novels are accessible by writing about titles you love.
goodies: All who sign up and read their three titles* will be entered into a drawing. 
  • One participant will win a verse novel of their choice. 
  • Five participants will win MAY B. journals — perfect for your TBR list, favorite quotes, a commonplace journal, or writing ideas of your own.
Here’s to a great month of reading. Spread the word! Sign up below!
 
*Honor system, guys. 




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  1. LLB says

    March 23, 2012 at 6:03 pm

    Caroline I love this! I’m trying to find ways to incorporate National Poetry Month into the Resource Room at school, as well as into my life outside libraries/literature. I’m going to steal your three titles, considering novels in verse are sort of new to me. I’ll be sure to email you or update you on how things go in both the RR and with me!
    Lauren

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  2. Caroline Starr Rose says

    March 23, 2012 at 6:17 pm

    Lauren, love it! There’s something really, really fun I found called Spine Poems (I’ll link soon or you can go Google) — take library books and “write” poems by stacking them, spine to spine, to create your verse.

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  3. Kimberley Griffiths Little says

    March 25, 2012 at 4:12 am

    Good choice of novels! I really loved SONG OF THE SPARROW – of course, I may be slightly biased! 😉

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  4. Irene Latham says

    March 25, 2012 at 1:27 pm

    Caroline, I’d love to have you on board for the KidLit Progressive Poem. There are just a few slots left! Sign up here: http://irenelatham.blogspot.com/2012/03/sign-up-here-for-2012-kidlit.html

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  5. Caroline Starr Rose says

    March 25, 2012 at 1:47 pm

    Kim, it’s because of you I know of this book!
    Irene, off to check it out.

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  6. Mia says

    March 26, 2012 at 7:59 pm

    Yes, I want to do this. I am finishing up Inside Out and Back Again and I want to read your book so I just need to read one more.

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  7. Rebecca says

    March 30, 2012 at 3:46 am

    I might just do this, though that will mean getting my hands on three verse novels. Unless I can count one that I am planning on retreading? Because I Am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas. I read the first few pages of May B. on Amazon–compelling beginning! So that is two. Just need one more.

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  8. Carolee Dean says

    April 2, 2012 at 2:50 am

    Okay, I’ve got two of the verse novels in my possession and a third on order, so I’m ready to go!

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  9. Caroline Starr Rose says

    April 2, 2012 at 4:45 pm

    Mia, Rebecca, Carolee, glad to hear it!

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  10. Amy L. Sonnichsen says

    April 12, 2012 at 10:23 pm

    I’m joining! I just reserved my three verse novels at the library. 🙂

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