Fellow workshop leaders: What your best short writing exercises you have used with teens or adult poets for developing specific skills (imagers, line breaks, etc.), not necessarily leading to poems? #writingprompts #WritingCommuntiy #writingteachers

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Karen McManus (Karen M. McManus Updates) in coversation with Samira Ahmed (Samira Ahmed updates) at @YAmidwest. Talking about Such Charming Liars. Two great authors and a bunch of others today. Jealous? Don't blame you. #YAMidwest

Sheperd, Megan. The Madman's Daughter. fb.me/377k6skHJ

Smith, Andrew. Winger. fb.me/6yVswB2yg

Smith, Jennifer E. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. fb.me/34zxC9EYb

Stiefvater, Maggie. The Raven Boys. fb.me/3RJc244Rn

Wein, Elizabeth. Code Name Verity. fb.me/2NSiwDfRL

Yancey, Rick. The 5th Wave. fb.me/6H6ulGnVi

Hillenbrand, Laura. Unbroken. fb.me/6ITwK6Rmy

WEGO LRC fb.me/3itFOxggq

Bartlett HS kids calling out school board about transgender rights. Scathing! Nice job. #LTAB2018

Butler College Prep booming out some bars. All 10s. Powerful poem. #LTAB2018

“Ginny is just my nickname...” Motel 6. I mean Motel 9.3 million black people in poverty. Great concept and poem. #LTAB2018

“Let me take it back / a few grades back...” Powerful poem every time I hear it. #LTAB2018 Sereen Omer

“Chicano culture is...immigrant or invalid...wanting wings but getting chicken adobo...” just wow...so good...#LTAB2018

I hope they don’t call my father. They will hear the charcoal in his voice... #LTAB2018

Never heard such a good economic analysis of racism in America! #LTAB2018

“Let’s her back be bended like the African Diaspora so the burden of generational grief never wreaks havoc on me...” Her words are fire every time I hear them. #LTAB2018