Pipsqueak at The Common Room writes about a kind of poem called a “pantoum.”

I’m not sure I really get it, but today’s assignment for National Poetry Month is to try to write a pantoum. I’ll add to this post if any of my urchins or I are at all successful in the endeavor.

Poetry activity for today: Write a pantoum.
Poet of the day: Aileen Fisher, not because she wrote pantoums, but because I have her book, Cricket in a Thicket on my shelf just waiting to be explored with the urchins.

Read about Aileen Fisher and an example of one of her poems, Open House.