AWF ANNOUNCES FATHER GOOSE POETRY FESTIVAL FOR KIDS!
The Alabama Writers’ Forum is excited to announce the Father Goose Poetry Festival for Kids!
This brand-new poetry writing contest is open to elementary-age children in kindergarten through fifth grade.
Teachers and librarians are invited to use the contest as a fun writing project to introduce their students to the joys of writing and reading poetry and to submit their students’ poems to the contest.
Poems will be judged in three categories: K-1, 2-3, 4-5. Writers of selected poems will be invited to read their work at the Father Goose Poetry Festival for Kids! at the Homewood Public Library on Saturday, May 18, at 2 p.m.
Winners will also receive an award from the AWF, publication in First Draft magazine, and a signed copy of The Father Goose Treasury of Poetry.
Students can write poems about any subject, including family, friends, school, pets, sports, nature, holidays, or anything that inspires them. To get started, see the “How to Write a Poem” at FatherGoose.com.
A POEM IS A LITTLE PATH
A poem is a little path
That leads you through the trees.
It takes you to the cliffs and shores,
To anywhere you please.
Follow it and trust your way
With mind and heart as one,
And when the journey’s over,
You’ll find you’ve just begun.
from The Father Goose Treasury of Poetry
by Charles Ghigna
