Hi readers, writers, and shark fans! Happy Poem in Your Pocket Day!
As a final celebration for National Poetry Month, it’s Poem in Your Pocket Day, during which we can literally carry poems around in our pockets, or we can try a little harder to share poetry with the people that we care about the most.
In Lit Shark’s case, we’re doing BOTH.
In anticipation of Poem in Your Pocket Day, our Editor-in-Chief created a mini booklet, which you can print out and create yourself with one sheet of 8.5×11 paper.
The mini collection includes poems by Althea Davis, Alyssa Harmon, Sophie Diener, Mary Walker, Mary Oliver, and Nina Heyen.
And it wouldn’t be a Lit Shark creation without some adorable marine-life-themed illustrations added in!
Also, the mini booklet is included on one sheet of paper, and there are simple directions with illustrations on how to make the mini booklet yourself. All you need is one sheet of paper, a printer, a pair of scissors, and a sense of whimsy. We also included very faint guidelines to help you know where to fold and where to cut. After we made our mini booklet, we trimmed the excess margin from two of the pages, just to make the whole book even, but you don’t even have to do that!
Happy Reading, and we hope you enjoy your mini booklet! Happy Poem in Your Pocket Day, and Happy National Poetry Month!
You can download and create your free mini booklet from Lit Shark here!
Enjoy
What’s Up Next for Lit Shark?
- Issue 10 of Lit Shark Magazine: The Winter Edition (which, fittingly, is all about writing and winter thaw).
- Issue 1 of Lit Pup Magazine, the full annual edition
- Our next Poem of the Month winner
- Submissions are open for Issue 11, Issue 12, and Issue 13, our Poem of the Month contest, and Lit Pup! (We especially need submissions for Issue 11 of Lit Shark Magazine: The SHARK DOG Edition, which focuses on misunderstood, stigmatized, and villainized animals and human experiences, and for our quarterly mini issues of Lit Pup!)
- Submissions will open soon for The Shiver Collective!
- Our first title (or… titles!) coming this summer!
- A “summer camp” edition of writing 30 poems in 30 days
- 30 days of SHARK WEEK prompts and watching commentary
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