Odd Shots Monday--Poetry Post

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If you do a Google search for "Poetry Post", you will be directed to innumerable forums and websites where people share, discuss, or ask and answer questions about poetry.

You probably won't find this.

Maybe you will, now.

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When I took this photo of the post in a yard I pass each day on my way into school, I had no idea what it was. I had passed it numerous times and wondered. I took the picture, thinking it would eventually be an odd shot.

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In our staff notes for the following week was a note that the fourth grade would be going on a walking field trip to the poetry post.

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Once it had been so identified, I questioned the teacher who was taking the kids to the post. Here is the background: the gentleman who owns the house was an English teacher in a nearby high school who encouraged the study and writing of poetry. He also has, in his home, a printing press--my impression being that it is a vintage one. Anyone can tack a poem to the post. He occasionally gathers them from the post, and has published a book of poems from the post.

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I may not have all of that exactly right, but question those fourth graders and they will tell you that they have had their poetry published--on the poetry post.