Let's THINK POETRY!

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We are offering the Think Poetry workshop to:

—current educators;

—retired teachers and librarians;

—teaching authors (poets who work with schools).

We hope to motivate poem writing PLUS provide guidance for full participants in how to incorporate various poetry writing skills, such as alliteration and metaphor, as well as poem elements such as rhyming and free verse poetry. We plan to publish a finished book in Summer 2024. All participants will be invited to write five poems that fit specific skills prompts and that also address specific language arts topics. 

Two videos on humor in children's poetry will kick off the video series, followed by short videos on various techniques and forms, including:

— rhyme; 

— repetition;

— rhythm;

— stanzas or specific structures (alignment, acrostic, etc.);

— metaphor or simile;

— alliteration;

— list poem 

— mask poem or poem of address (using personification or dialogue)

— syllabic forms (haiku, tanka, cinquain, etc.)

— free verse (with and without punctuation and capitalization)

We hope that each full participant in Think Poetry will have one poem in the book, but inclusion is not guaranteed.

Registration opens on January 2nd and closes on January 9th, 2024.

Registered participants will be invited to join a Zoom introduction to the project on January 27th or 28th (choose one session).

Think Poetry will accommodate flexible at-your-own-pace writing schedules. If you want to watch all the videos and then write all of your poems in a week, you can do that. Or if you need to write poems at a more leisurely pace, you can do that instead. Please note, though: in order for us to produce a book that will be published in Summer 2024, we need to select poems for the book by mid-March.

There will be an option to participate in this project in a limited way ($99 fee which will be donated to charity along with profits from the book). Please send us an email if you would like to know details on limited participation.

We have gathered approximately 100 names of poets who would like to be invited as guest poets for our book. We have been honored to draw from this list for our past several books, including poets such as Naomi Shihab Nye, Jack Prelutsky, Margarita Engle, Nikki Grimes, Jacqueline Woodson, and Linda Sue Park. A handful of poets will be invited to be guest poets for our next Think Poetry project.

In the past we have invited alums of our Anthologies 101 course to submit poems —unfortunately, though, alumni invitations will likely not happen for this 2024 project.

Registration for Think Poetry will open on January 2nd and we will begin sending the program materials (videos with poem examples, etc.) to full participants immediately after registration closes. Full participants will engage in self-paced study in January and will receive feedback on their writing in February and March. 

Registration Fees 

$499 for full participation PLUS 20 copies of our next poetry anthology

Or $299 for full participation 

OR

$99 for limited participation (no videos or feedback on poems; registration fee to be donated to charity)

If you are interested in registering, please send an email to info@pomelobooks.com AND please copy both janet@janetwong.com AND svardell@gmail.com.

You can take it anytime it's convenient for you! Antho 101 provides a comprehensive overview of the world of children's poetry and is offered in an "at-your-own-pace" webinar format. For more details, please email us at info@pomelobooks.com and janet@janetwong.com and svardell@gmail.com.

For the moment we are no longer offering Anthologies 201 or 401. 

Anthologies 301 is an "at-your-own-pace" webinar series with a video on GRAPHICS (creating digital postcards and images for social media), a video on VIDEOS (creating promotional videos), and a video on SWAG (creating promotional items such as stickers). Learn to promote your own work as a poet in eye-catching and effective ways!The cost is $99.

Anthologies 101 and 301 are "at-your-own-pace" webinars that you can watch at your convenience. 

For Think Poetry, recorded videos are offered only as part of the course (not offered separately).