April 1: "In the Basement of the Goodwill Store" by Ted Kooser
April 2: "An Ode We Owe" by Amanda Gorman
April 3: "The Real Prayers Are Not the Words, But the Attention that Comes First" by Mary Oliver
April 4: "Dirty Face" by Shel Silverstein
April 5: "Of the Surface of Things" by Wallace Stevens
This week, try your hand at writing an American Cinquain, which is an unrhymed five-line poem where the first line has two syllables, the second has four, the third has six, the fourth has eight, and the fifth has two (2, 4, 6, 8, 2). For further information, visit: https://www.litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/cinquain
