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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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LA Writes!
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This young writer’s contest began in 2004. Louisiana Writing Project teacher-consultants choose the finalists in each category and professional authors choose the top three in each category (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and junior and senior French). The finalists are chosen on voice, originality/surprise, imagery/figurative language, clarity, economy, and significance/insight. The competition is open to all Louisiana students, K-12.

This year's deadline is May 15, 2012

Download entry form and guidelines here.

LA Writes poems included on this website:
A Cobalt Blue
A Limerick Poem
A Puzzling Contemplation
Baseball
Beware
Books
Chapter 8 Review
China
Drained Color
Dream
Dreams
Étoile Claire, Étoile Brillante
Flying Free
Friends
Follow Your Heart
Grey
Haiku
Help!
High and Low Tide
Holy Bedlam Hurricane
Homefront
I Am
I Am From . . .
If
Imprisoned
La Peste du Bal Masqué
Le Dimanche
Life Is a Painting
Life’s Sweet Mystery
Lookout
Metal Pachyderms
My Bed
My Mother’s Kitchen
Oil Spill
Rumbling Pompeii
School for Fish
Shoes
Six
The Game
The Journey
The Last Picture
The Poem
The True Elements
What is Blue?
Winter