National Poetry Month was
conceived by The Academy of American Poets and was first celebrated in April,
1996. Its purpose is to increase public awareness of poetry as a living
literary genre.
Poetry Month was celebrated at
Pathways for the whole month of April by reading poetry, writing poetry, and by
exploring new poets. In celebration of the Poetry Month a different poem
everyday written by famous poets and even poems written by children across the
school were circulated and shared among each other .
Children were introduced to a variety of poetic forms like Shape
Poems, Acrostic Poems, Diamante Poems, Ballad Poem, Haiku and instant poetry
forms through an interactive board
outside the library and students were provided with several models for creating
different forms of poetry. Children from
Grade-2 upwards wrote poems on different forms in the library.
We got an overwhelming response
from students as well as teachers who made this Poetry Month a complete
success.
Anju Dutt
Librarian