One of our own alumni, Lee Harris, shared this wonderful post with me at Book Riot on Spine-Label-Poetry. Great idea for maybe a contest, displays on your web page, on a bulletin board,  a way to use the camera function of the iPad to record creations, etc, etc. Elementary folks...this could be a great project at year end if you can convince the students to faithfully use shelf markers!! 
It's all I can do to not drop everything and go in search of poetry on my bookshelves!!!      Katie

Here's a lovely idea shared by librarian Michelle Cooper.

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Check out this idea from SLJ on taking book talking to a new level. Just click on the photo of Elizabeth Bird (yes... that's as in Betsy Bird of SLJ's Top 100 Picture Books) and you'll see a delightful video she made with school librarian Travis Jonker. He's the fellow who did the session with Mr. Schu on apps for use in the school library but also developed the art of spine poetry.  kt

I happened across this among my Poem-A-Day posts from Poets.org and thought it would make a great tie to the Harry Potter books, not that most need a lead to that collection. Might be nice to point out to studentsthat JK Rowling didn't create everything from her imagination.  You could use this now with its 'fall' related title and let your students puzzle about the connection to the photo and Harry Potter or save it for April's Poetry Month -  Katie
An August Midnight
by Thomas Hardy 

I

A shaded lamp and a waving blind,
And the beat of a clock from a distant floor:
On this scene enter—winged, horned, and spined--
A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore;
While 'mid my page there idly stands
A sleepy fly, that rubs its hands...

II

Thus meet we five, in this still place,
At this point of time, at this point in space.
—My guests besmear my new-penned line,
Or bang at the lamp and fall supine.
"God's humblest, they!" I muse. Yet why?
They know Earth-secrets that know not I.

Check out this information on Poem-in-your-pocket Day, which is coming up soon!!   Years ago I made a bulletin board for April with a colorful paper apron, sporting a pocket of course, which I kept filled with poems for the students to take. It needed constant refilling.                                                                                  Katie

Check out this Bookmaking With Kids website with instructions for a little bookmaking project for students with National Haiku Day in mind. Sure it looks great for showcasing some original poetry but it has  a lot of other applications as well. I'm adding it to my Scoop-It site and will house that under the Bookmaking tab of our new LiveBinder full of year end activities for those days when you have more time with the students.                                                   
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Those of you in control of iPads being used in English classes and/or with students studying poetry might want to look over this collection of Poetry Apps, posted on the Mashable Entertainment blog, to see what is suitable for your age group. And if you find the time to read the comments on the post, Nikhil Khandekar's, as well as the author's followup, are very interesting.                                                                                     Katie