Tag: Pizza Poetry
Pizza Poetry Submissions Are OPEN!
Attention writers ages 6-18
Want to share your poetry with New Orleans through the magic of pizza???
The Pizza Poetry Project celebrates National Poetry Month and the power of New Orleans youth voices by publishing poems on pizza boxes on Pizza Poetry Day – this year, on April 29th. The best poems from grade bands 1-3, 4-8, and 9-12th will be selected as Pizza Poet Laureates*. Students will receive a certificate and be celebrated at our Pizza Poetry Party!
To have your poem featured on a pizza box you must:
1. Be between the ages of 6 and 18.
2. Email your poem to pizzapoetry@826neworleans.org by 5pm March 31st. We accept poems typed in the body of the email, or attached as Word or Google docs. No PDFs please.
3. Include your Name, Age, and School. Please also include your poem’s title if there is one. Any poems without a title will be printed with “Untitled.”
4. Attach the consent to print form signed by you, or your parent if you are under 18 years old.
Questions? Email pizzapoetry@826neworleans.org
*Only students who attend Orleans Parish Public Schools are eligible to be selected as Poet Laureates.
#WritingPromptWednesday: If Poems
“If I were a black bee,
I’d buzz around town.
I’d soar like a bird above the whole world
I’d drop on someone and stick in my stinger and fall to the ground.”
In an if poem, the writer imagines what they might do if they were something, or someone, else.
How do you write an If poem?
An “If” poem can take many structures. They can consist of several stanzas of the writer imagining he/she is multiple things, or the writer can imagine he/she is one thing, and expand upon it over several lines. One structure of an “If” poem could look like:
Line 1 – “If I were a _____________________”
Line 2 – “I’d ______________” (action)
Line 3 – “I’d ______________” (action)
Line 4 – “and ______________.”
We are now accepting submissions for the 5th Annual Pizza Poetry Project. If you are not able to bring us to your classroom for a free workshop, consider having your students try to write an If poem and submit it for consideration!
#WritingPromptWednesday: Pizza Poetry Acrostics
Last year Chloe wrote a staff favorite: an acrostic poem about pizza (and zebras). Acrostic poems are popular poetry forms taught in schools, because the structure is easy to grasp.
So…how do you write an acrostic poem?
An acrostic poem is a type of poetry where the first, last or other letters in a line spell out a particular word or phrase. The most common and simple form of an acrostic poem is where the first letters of each line spell out the word or phrase.
To challenge older students, try having them create an acrostic poem where the last letters in the line spell out a word or phrase.
Makes my brain poP
Love to read them sO
Funny and awesomE
Poems are the besT
Makes my heart roaR
They make me happY
We are now accepting submissions for the 5th Annual Pizza Poetry Project. If you are not able to bring us to your classroom for a free workshop, consider having your students try to write an acrostic poem and submit it for consideration!
#WritingPromptWednesday: Pizza Poetry Fractured Nursery Rhymes
Everyone needs a little help sometimes to get started writing poetry. Changing the words of a well-known poem could be a good jumping-off point. Fractured Nursery Rhymes do just that. It’s fun to take a familiar nursery rhyme and change some of the words to make it funny.
How do you write a fractured nursery rhyme?
Fractured nursery rhymes have many different structures. To be successful, they should follow the same rhyme scheme/pattern of the original rhyme they are imitating.
Give Mary an animal other than a lamb.
Maybe something else twinkles other than a star.
Try giving the Old Woman a place to live other than a shoe.
Try your hand at a fractured nursery rhyme and share it with us!
We are now accepting submissions for the 5th Annual Pizza Poetry Project. If you are not able to bring us to your classroom for a free workshop, consider having your students try to write a fractured nursery rhyme and submit it for consideration!
#WritingPromptWednesday: Pizza Poetry Couplets
Armani showed us that couplets are not just meant for the Elizabethan era, and can be differentiated to fit most age groups and abilities. Couplets are two lines of poetry that make up a stanza. These two lines can be part of a longer poem, or can stand alone as a very short poem. Couplets usually rhyme, but do not have to.
How do you write a couplet poem?
There are multiple ways to approach writing a poem of couplets. You can try first thinking of a subject, like shoes.
Next, brainstorm a list of words associated with the subject:
feet
run
cool
tough
Then, think of words that rhyme with the associated words:
feet – sweet
run – fun
cool – school
tough – rough
Lastly, write sentences using the rhyming words:
Shoes are needed for my feet.
Wearing them is really sweet.
And there’s a couplet!
We are now accepting submissions for the 5th Annual Pizza Poetry Project. If you are not able to bring us to your classroom for a free workshop, consider having your students try to write a couplet and submit it for consideration!
In the News: Pizza Poetry project adds new events to menu/The Advocate
Where are they now? Catching up on people, pets and projects from 2016
Pizza Poetry project adds new events to menu
BY JASON BROWNE and KAREN TAYLOR
The Advocate
December 28, 2016
If Pizza Poetry is the voice of the children, those kids are about to get louder.
Big Class, the New Orleans nonprofit that encourages kids to write, in part by attaching their poems to pizza boxes at restaurants across the city for one day each spring, is helping to develop a New Orleans Youth Poetry Festival and working with 826 National on initiatives to get more kids writing to get those works out to a much larger crowd.
Read more: http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/communities/crescent_city/article_393637e2-c311-11e6-a2e7-2b40bd2701dd.html?sr_source=lift_amplify
Poetry & Pepperoni: Pizza boxes are the pages for young people’s verses
April 12, 2016/The New Orleans Advocate
“My Poetic Pizza” by Hiyanta
I live in New Orleans
flying high, singing
songs you might
see me flying
by, sometimes
it will be in
the fall,
nothing
will ever
make me
fall.
— Hiyanta, 4th Grade, Samuel J. Green Charter School
From Pizza Poetry Anthology 2015
Click here to check out the 2015 Pizza Poetry Anthology.
Would you like a poem with that? Buy a pizza, get some poetry at New Orleans restaurants
April 6, 2016
“The young poet’s subject matters range from lighthearted, such as annoying brothers and food, to more serious subjects, such as family issues and discrimination.”
The Times-Picayune wrote an article about the Pizza Poetry Project and the “magical pairing” of the two things everyone loves: youth writing and pizza. Poetry is playful, fun, and free in structure, allowing it to be a highly accessible form of writing for young people. Also, kids loves pizza. Read the full article here.
Pizza Poetry April 17th
April 13, 2015/Fox 8 Morning Edition
Pizza Poetry Submissions Are OPEN!
Attention writers ages 6-18
Want to share your poetry with New Orleans through the magic of pizza???
The Pizza Poetry Project celebrates National Poetry Month and the power of New Orleans youth voices by publishing poems on pizza boxes on Pizza Poetry Day – this year, on April 29th. The best poems from grade bands 1-3, 4-8, and 9-12th will be selected as Pizza Poet Laureates*. Students will receive a certificate and be celebrated at our Pizza Poetry Party!
To have your poem featured on a pizza box you must:
1. Be between the ages of 6 and 18.
2. Email your poem to pizzapoetry@826neworleans.org by 5pm March 31st. We accept poems typed in the body of the email, or attached as Word or Google docs. No PDFs please.
3. Include your Name, Age, and School. Please also include your poem’s title if there is one. Any poems without a title will be printed with “Untitled.”
4. Attach the consent to print form signed by you, or your parent if you are under 18 years old.
Questions? Email pizzapoetry@826neworleans.org
*Only students who attend Orleans Parish Public Schools are eligible to be selected as Poet Laureates.
#WritingPromptWednesday: If Poems
“If I were a black bee,
I’d buzz around town.
I’d soar like a bird above the whole world
I’d drop on someone and stick in my stinger and fall to the ground.”
In an if poem, the writer imagines what they might do if they were something, or someone, else.
How do you write an If poem?
An “If” poem can take many structures. They can consist of several stanzas of the writer imagining he/she is multiple things, or the writer can imagine he/she is one thing, and expand upon it over several lines. One structure of an “If” poem could look like:
Line 1 – “If I were a _____________________”
Line 2 – “I’d ______________” (action)
Line 3 – “I’d ______________” (action)
Line 4 – “and ______________.”
We are now accepting submissions for the 5th Annual Pizza Poetry Project. If you are not able to bring us to your classroom for a free workshop, consider having your students try to write an If poem and submit it for consideration!
#WritingPromptWednesday: Pizza Poetry Acrostics
Last year Chloe wrote a staff favorite: an acrostic poem about pizza (and zebras). Acrostic poems are popular poetry forms taught in schools, because the structure is easy to grasp.
So…how do you write an acrostic poem?
An acrostic poem is a type of poetry where the first, last or other letters in a line spell out a particular word or phrase. The most common and simple form of an acrostic poem is where the first letters of each line spell out the word or phrase.
To challenge older students, try having them create an acrostic poem where the last letters in the line spell out a word or phrase.
Makes my brain poP
Love to read them sO
Funny and awesomE
Poems are the besT
Makes my heart roaR
They make me happY
We are now accepting submissions for the 5th Annual Pizza Poetry Project. If you are not able to bring us to your classroom for a free workshop, consider having your students try to write an acrostic poem and submit it for consideration!
#WritingPromptWednesday: Pizza Poetry Fractured Nursery Rhymes
Everyone needs a little help sometimes to get started writing poetry. Changing the words of a well-known poem could be a good jumping-off point. Fractured Nursery Rhymes do just that. It’s fun to take a familiar nursery rhyme and change some of the words to make it funny.
How do you write a fractured nursery rhyme?
Fractured nursery rhymes have many different structures. To be successful, they should follow the same rhyme scheme/pattern of the original rhyme they are imitating.
Give Mary an animal other than a lamb.
Maybe something else twinkles other than a star.
Try giving the Old Woman a place to live other than a shoe.
Try your hand at a fractured nursery rhyme and share it with us!
We are now accepting submissions for the 5th Annual Pizza Poetry Project. If you are not able to bring us to your classroom for a free workshop, consider having your students try to write a fractured nursery rhyme and submit it for consideration!
#WritingPromptWednesday: Pizza Poetry Couplets
Armani showed us that couplets are not just meant for the Elizabethan era, and can be differentiated to fit most age groups and abilities. Couplets are two lines of poetry that make up a stanza. These two lines can be part of a longer poem, or can stand alone as a very short poem. Couplets usually rhyme, but do not have to.
How do you write a couplet poem?
There are multiple ways to approach writing a poem of couplets. You can try first thinking of a subject, like shoes.
Next, brainstorm a list of words associated with the subject:
feet
run
cool
tough
Then, think of words that rhyme with the associated words:
feet – sweet
run – fun
cool – school
tough – rough
Lastly, write sentences using the rhyming words:
Shoes are needed for my feet.
Wearing them is really sweet.
And there’s a couplet!
We are now accepting submissions for the 5th Annual Pizza Poetry Project. If you are not able to bring us to your classroom for a free workshop, consider having your students try to write a couplet and submit it for consideration!
In the News: Pizza Poetry project adds new events to menu/The Advocate
Where are they now? Catching up on people, pets and projects from 2016
Pizza Poetry project adds new events to menu
BY JASON BROWNE and KAREN TAYLOR
The Advocate
December 28, 2016
If Pizza Poetry is the voice of the children, those kids are about to get louder.
Big Class, the New Orleans nonprofit that encourages kids to write, in part by attaching their poems to pizza boxes at restaurants across the city for one day each spring, is helping to develop a New Orleans Youth Poetry Festival and working with 826 National on initiatives to get more kids writing to get those works out to a much larger crowd.
Read more: http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/communities/crescent_city/article_393637e2-c311-11e6-a2e7-2b40bd2701dd.html?sr_source=lift_amplify
Poetry & Pepperoni: Pizza boxes are the pages for young people’s verses
April 12, 2016/The New Orleans Advocate
“My Poetic Pizza” by Hiyanta
I live in New Orleans
flying high, singing
songs you might
see me flying
by, sometimes
it will be in
the fall,
nothing
will ever
make me
fall.
— Hiyanta, 4th Grade, Samuel J. Green Charter School
From Pizza Poetry Anthology 2015
Click here to check out the 2015 Pizza Poetry Anthology.
Would you like a poem with that? Buy a pizza, get some poetry at New Orleans restaurants
April 6, 2016
“The young poet’s subject matters range from lighthearted, such as annoying brothers and food, to more serious subjects, such as family issues and discrimination.”
The Times-Picayune wrote an article about the Pizza Poetry Project and the “magical pairing” of the two things everyone loves: youth writing and pizza. Poetry is playful, fun, and free in structure, allowing it to be a highly accessible form of writing for young people. Also, kids loves pizza. Read the full article here.
Pizza Poetry April 17th
April 13, 2015/Fox 8 Morning Edition
