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TO START THE NEW YEAR, WRITE EVERY MORNING. Start with an aubade.
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TO START THE NEW YEAR, WRITE EVERY MORNING. Start with an aubade.
aubade
(oh – bahd’)
from the French for dawn
a lyric poem about the dawn, set at dawn, or a morning serenade. The theme of an aubade is traditionally about the parting of lovers, a standard example is the lark scene in Act 3 sc 5 of Romeo and Juliet. Many scholars consider the alba to be an early form of an aubade.
"I make myself write. I write every day, and I get up and write into the light."—Peter Cooley
example: Peter Cooley’s “Your Own Hours”
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This section includes a a different poem for each day of the school year complete with cross curricular lesson plans. Simply click on a highlighted date below.
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Live Local
Read Local
Write Local
As a state, we know our food, our musicians, our natural resources, and even many of our artists and novelists. Let’s add poets to that list.