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2021 READING CHALLENGES > Poetry Day Reading Challenge - INFO & SIGN UPS

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Amanda Artist Cat (amandawholovesbooks) It's poetry day on Sunday - March 21st - and they're going to project poetry on important landmarks in London, so if you live close by, lucky you!! If you don't, no worries, there's this challenge for you to have fun with!

In this challenge, each team will be given a list to complete. You will read the poems listed and the team that finishes all items on their list first wins!


Amanda Artist Cat (amandawholovesbooks) TEAM POETS:
- Read a poem by Shakespeare
- Read a poem by Carol Ann Duffy
- Read a poem by Lewis Carol
- Read a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

TEAM LIMERICKS:
- Read a poem about a witch
- Read a poem about death
- Read a poem about cats
- Read a poem about a vegetable
- Read a poem about a ghost

TEAM PROSE POETRY:
- Read a poem with only one word in the title
- Read a poem three pages long
- Read a poem written in third person
- Read a poem with less than five lines

TEAM SONNETS:
- Read a sonnet
- Read a poetry collection
- Read prose poetry
- Read a haiku
- Read an epic

(Sorry about the silly names, I'm still very sleepy and slow at 12 o'clock am.)

Sign up below and I will sort you into teams! :)


Amanda Artist Cat (amandawholovesbooks) Ari wrote: "I'll try"

Yayy :) :)


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Anushka (bookish_swiftie) | 11 comments I'd like to participate!


message 5: by Library (new)

Library Queen I'll do it. :)


Amanda Artist Cat (amandawholovesbooks) Thank you Anushka and Library!


Amanda Artist Cat (amandawholovesbooks) Hiya! Due to the lack of participants, I'm quite confused and don't know what to do! I'll let you choose - Shall we...

- Make every participant complete all the prompts of one team alone, because there's just enough members for one on each team?

- Pretend this challenge never happened? 😹



message 8: by Anushka (new)

Anushka (bookish_swiftie) | 11 comments Amanda Artist Cat wrote: "Hiya! Due to the lack of participants, I'm quite confused and don't know what to do! I'll let you choose - Shall we...

- Make every participant complete all the prompts of one team alone, because ..."


I'm okay with anything! Reading poetry doesn't take much time, so we can do it. You can also cancel the challenge if you want.


message 9: by Anushka (new)

Anushka (bookish_swiftie) | 11 comments If we are having the challenge, a lot of poems aren't available on goodreads as books, so how do we log them in?


Amanda Artist Cat (amandawholovesbooks) Anushka wrote: "If we are having the challenge, a lot of poems aren't available on goodreads as books, so how do we log them in?"

Don't worry, just write the poem and the poetry collection you read it from :)


Amanda Artist Cat (amandawholovesbooks) Thank you for sticking with the challenge, everyone! It starts tomorrow, I will post the teams today, thanks :)


message 12: by Amanda Artist Cat (last edited Mar 31, 2021 05:56PM) (new)

Amanda Artist Cat (amandawholovesbooks) TEAM POETS:
Anushka

TEAM LIMERICKS:
Ari

TEAM PROSE POETRY:
Library Queen

TEAM SONNETS:
Amanda Artist Cat


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