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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 24/04/2026

This is such an honor. Thanks, Melissa, for building a lesson plan around my poem!

Melissa Alter Smith @melaltersmith.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I got so inspired by a poem by @rosswhite.com that I read yesterday and had to make a #teachlivingpoets lesson out of it! Here it is! 🏀 teachlivingpoets.com/2026/04/22/i...

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A slide from the lesson with a video about LaMelo Ball and 3 questions to answer

Slide image with two interpretation questions and an image of LaMelo Ball dribbling

Slide image with 3 poem prompts inspired by Ross White’s mentor text

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Melissa Alter Smith @melaltersmith.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

🔥Burn up 2025🔥with this #teachlivingpoets lesson by Jessica Salfia teachlivingpoets.com/2020/01/14/b...

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Carrie Mattern @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

@melaltersmith.bsky.social and #TeachLivingPoets helped me realize how collaborative, insightful, and meaningful poetry can be in EVERY classroom. So grateful for the lesson ideas, guidance, and those fleeting Twitter chats! This post reminded me of that work, and has some great poetry linked!

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@Shamlet @shamlet.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

AI is Iago and we're all Roderigos

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Melissa Alter Smith @melaltersmith.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

In Boston at the national AP Annual Conference to present a session today: “Preparing Students for Success: Classroom Practices & Test-Taking Strategies for the Digital AP English Exam” and to lead a one-day workshop for new AP teachers on Saturday. The first stop on my whirlwind work tour of July.

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Melissa Alter Smith @melaltersmith.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I’m leading 3 #aplit workshops this summer 👩🏼‍🏫 APAC one-day workshop (in person) in Boston 7/19 eventreg.collegeboard.org/event/29cea9... 👩‍💻UNCCharlotte online APSI July 21-25 cstem.charlotte.edu/pk-20-educat... 👩🏼‍🏫 Silver State APSI (in person) in Las Vegas July 28-31 sites.google.com/a/nv.ccsd.ne...

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

of course my favorite poem about the Super Bowl is actually about mortality and the absurdity of being alive

Super Bowl
by Mary Ruefle

Who won? I said.
The game’s tomorrow, he said.
And I became the snail I always was,
crossing the field in my helmet.
But I’d given it my all,
while the plane arced on its way
to a landing, when I overheard
the woman behind us say
I was gathering wildflowers to make a wreath
to lay on my mother’s grave when my son
fell off a mountain in Italy
and I felt such joy over the unknown
outcome of her words
I was not ashamed,
for I can feign interest
in the world, just as she
in that great green meadow
must have.

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

4.) celebrate work you love. It's great to post about your own work, but you should also engage with and celebrate the work of you peers. If you don't have the time to make a post about everything you love, repost other posts about that writing. It all helps!

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Penny Kittle @pennykittle.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I shared this article in Wisconsin last week... AMAZING, right? I listen to several books a month now because of my commute to campus, and I've come to love being read to. How about you? #booklove

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Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn’t Matter

Stories stimulate the brain in the same way, regardless of whether they're read or heard.

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Dana Huff @danahuff.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Melissa has the best ideas. Also check out her book and the rest of her blog😀 amzn.to/3ZGPvFx

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Teach Living Poets

Amazon.com: Teach Living Poets: 9780814152614: Illich, Lindsay, Smith, Melissa Alter: Books

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Melissa Alter Smith @melaltersmith.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

New #teachlivingpoets lesson up for teaching Amanda Gorman’s poem inspired by the Wicked movie! Check it out: teachlivingpoets.com/2024/12/01/d...

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Pernille Schmidt Ripp @pernille.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Can’t miss presentation for those attending #ncte24

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JoelRGarza @joelrgarza.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

For all of you that #TeachLivingPoets, check out this dang TikTok that @hanvanderhart.bsky.social made for my students, explaining the function, tradition, complexity, & impact of volta & disjunction in the way that only they can! 🥹🫶🏽🤔 Follow them & buy their books! www.tiktok.com/@bookishbeas...

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Volta Vs. Disjunction! This one goes out to Joel Garza’s class! 📚💙 These writers asked the best questions! #poetrytok #writers #classvisits #writersoftiktok

TikTok video by HanVHart

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The Educator Collaborative @theedcollab.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

💔We miss EduTwitter very much. 💙 SO join @ichrislehman.bsky.social and @drtharris.bsky.social next Tuesday on this app for a Bluesky Educator Chat to (RE)CONNECT. Use #theedcollab 🙏Tag & invite other edufriends! We can figure this app our together. While we (re)build community.

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

A lot of people have shared this poem over the past week. It’s a sentiment I think about a lot, especially now. I hope everyone is doing what they need to take care of themselves. One step at a time. One day at a time.

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Melissa Alter Smith @melaltersmith.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Imagine Julie Andrews singing “My Favorite Things” 🎶 #TeachLivingPoets

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Brent Gilson-Lifting Literacy @mrbgilson.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

In honor of @melaltersmith.bsky.social joining us I would love to build a thread of poetry that folks love to use in High School classes. I finally have a group that want to spend time reading, writing, and performing haha #LiftingLiteracy 📌 Share here and follow the thread 👍 #iteachenglish

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