NPM Day 20: Invitation to Create - Anagrams and Art

Reading poetry often leads to creating poetry. Over the next few days, I'll be sharing ways you and/or the kids and teens in your life might be inspired to create poetry. 

We'll start with anagrams. If you haven't read Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word by Bob Raczka, do it now. The idea is brilliant and reminds me of those worksheets I got as a kid: How Many Words Can You Make Out of This Phrase? In his preface, Bob invites readers to try their hand at creating poems from one word. 

Art can definitely inspire poetry as seen in the two collections World Make Way: New Poems Inspired by Art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art edited by Jan Greenberg. You can find public domain images or open access art on a few websites. Here is a selection: 

• Free Images and Open Access at National Gallery of Art
• Open Access at the Met
• Open Access Images at The Art Institute of Chicago
• Public Domain Image Archive

Resources 

• Reader's guide to Lemonade on Poetry for Children blog
• Teaching Ideas for World Make Way from The Classroom Bookshelf

Links to My Reviews

• Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed from One Word
• World Make Way: New Poems Inspired by Art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins