I looked around the internet and found a few really wonderful sources of penguin facts. If you’re planning a penguin unit this is where you’ll want to start. Enjoy!

Praise for Run, Rebel - a Guardian best book of 2020: A tightly crafted series of punchy, often heartbreaking narrative poems . . . Mann's brilliant, coruscating verse novel lays out the anatomy of Amber's revolution, and the tentative first flowerings of hope and change. Guardian Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828): Known for his compassionate view of life and his accessible, down-to-earth style, Issa infused his haiku with humor and empathy, highlighting the interconnectedness of all living beings.Cutting words (kireji): In Japanese haiku, kireji are special words or punctuation that signal a pause or shift in the poem, adding emphasis or emotional weight. In English haiku, punctuation or line breaks often serve a similar purpose. Your Family, Your Body features the work of Malika Booker, the Guyanese-British writer and performer behind London- and Chicago-based collective Malika's Kitchen; the Pulitzer Prize-winning Sharon Olds, one of America's most brilliant, beloved and candid voices; and Warsan Shire, the award-winning poet and first ever Young Poetry Laureate of London who also lent her words to Beyoncé's visual album Lemonade.

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In this post, we bring you 5 original and unique poems about penguins that celebrate the beauty and complexity of these captivating animals. These poems offer a fun and engaging way to learn about the habits, behaviors, and personalities of penguins, from their icy habitats to their endearing courtship rituals.

There are several techniques employed by haiku poets to create depth and resonance within the constraints of the form. Some of these techniques include: Yosa Buson (1716-1783): A painter and poet, Buson combined his artistic talents to create vivid, visual haiku that celebrated the beauty of the natural world.The Penguin Modern Poets are succinct, collectible, lovingly-assembled guides to the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry, from the UK, America and beyond. Every volume brings together representative selections from the work of three poets now writing, allowing the seasoned poetry lover and the curious reader alike to encounter our most exciting new voices. The prose poem has proven one of the most innovative and versatile poetic forms of recent years. In the century-and-a-half since Charles Baudelaire, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde and Ivan Turgenev spread the notion of a new kind of poetry, this 'genre with an oxymoron for a name' has attracted and beguiled many of our most beloved writers. Yet it has long remained a hidden territory - and even now, this peculiarly rich and expansive form can strike many contemporary readers as something of a mystery. The latest volume in Penguin Modern Poets series - moving and unflinchingly honest poems from three different cultures about experiences of the female body, the family, sexual politics and conflict