Heidi Mordhorst - WHISPERshout Magazine
@heidimordhorst.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 poetry + arts education + climate
This fall at WHISPERshout Writing Workshop, dozens of kids 6-11 discovered #poetry #comics by @grantdraws.bsky.social & @reneemlatulippe.bsky.social. Check our their work at the new issue of WHISPERshout #Magazine! #kidlit #comicart #kidswrite @anterobot.bsky.social bit.ly/WHISPERshout...
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This fall at WHISPERshout Writing Workshop, dozens of kids 6-11 discovered #poetry #comics by @grantdraws.bsky.social & @reneemlatulippe.bsky.social. Check our their work at the new issue of WHISPERshout #Magazine! #kidlit #comicart #kidswrite @anterobot.bsky.social bit.ly/WHISPERshout...
Happy Halloween to all #saints #haints #souls #ancestors #wanderers #neighbors #refugees
#halloween #poem #poetrycommunity #pagan #history #samhain #kidlit #poetsky
A Theory of Halloween,
or why my pumpkins are always smiling
#halloween #poem #poetrycommunity #pagan #history #samhain #kidlit #poetsky
A Theory of Halloween,
or why my pumpkins are always smiling
October 31, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Happy Halloween to all #saints #haints #souls #ancestors #wanderers #neighbors #refugees
#halloween #poem #poetrycommunity #pagan #history #samhain #kidlit #poetsky
A Theory of Halloween,
or why my pumpkins are always smiling
#halloween #poem #poetrycommunity #pagan #history #samhain #kidlit #poetsky
A Theory of Halloween,
or why my pumpkins are always smiling
It's here, it's here! This second amazing anthology THE NATURE OF OUR TIMES from Paloma Press is here, full of words for all the feelings you may carry about nature in these unraveling times. Many thanks to the editors, and to Wick Poetry Center!
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org
September 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
It's here, it's here! This second amazing anthology THE NATURE OF OUR TIMES from Paloma Press is here, full of words for all the feelings you may carry about nature in these unraveling times. Many thanks to the editors, and to Wick Poetry Center!
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org
Fantastic time this week #writing #poetry with 6-7's! We dove deep into books by RebeccaKaiDotlich, @georgiaheard.bsky.social [WELCOME TO THE WONDER HOUSE] & MichaArcher [WONDER WALKERS], crafted paper box rooms to house our #poems, and built our own #Wonder House! bit.ly/WHISPERshout...
August 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Fantastic time this week #writing #poetry with 6-7's! We dove deep into books by RebeccaKaiDotlich, @georgiaheard.bsky.social [WELCOME TO THE WONDER HOUSE] & MichaArcher [WONDER WALKERS], crafted paper box rooms to house our #poems, and built our own #Wonder House! bit.ly/WHISPERshout...
‼️IMPORTANT CHANGES to federal education funding which erase DEI and SEL. Your public comment can make a difference. Closes midnight tomorrow. Go to www.regulations.gov/commenton/ED... Feel free to jack from mine.
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www.instagram.com/p/DJ7a_JuBaja/
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June 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
‼️IMPORTANT CHANGES to federal education funding which erase DEI and SEL. Your public comment can make a difference. Closes midnight tomorrow. Go to www.regulations.gov/commenton/ED... Feel free to jack from mine.
docs.google.com/.../1cm6YbXh....
www.instagram.com/p/DJ7a_JuBaja/
docs.google.com/.../1cm6YbXh....
www.instagram.com/p/DJ7a_JuBaja/
Just wrapped THIS PRETTY PLANET, possibly my fave #poetryworkshop! We read from VWorth, @joycesidman.bsky.social & others about #nature elements, use 'em to create #mandalas & then #kidswrite. Enjoy a poem by Bea, & thanks to JForster and @tomchapinmusic.bsky.social for our theme song! #holyplace
June 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Just wrapped THIS PRETTY PLANET, possibly my fave #poetryworkshop! We read from VWorth, @joycesidman.bsky.social & others about #nature elements, use 'em to create #mandalas & then #kidswrite. Enjoy a poem by Bea, & thanks to JForster and @tomchapinmusic.bsky.social for our theme song! #holyplace
#blaneylecture
Thanks, @kavehakbar.bsky.social
@poetsorg.bsky.social and radishes everywhere for helping to "adjust our metabolization of language to remind us of its materiality, its power." #radish
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Thanks, @kavehakbar.bsky.social
@poetsorg.bsky.social and radishes everywhere for helping to "adjust our metabolization of language to remind us of its materiality, its power." #radish
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May 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
#blaneylecture
Thanks, @kavehakbar.bsky.social
@poetsorg.bsky.social and radishes everywhere for helping to "adjust our metabolization of language to remind us of its materiality, its power." #radish
1m
Thanks, @kavehakbar.bsky.social
@poetsorg.bsky.social and radishes everywhere for helping to "adjust our metabolization of language to remind us of its materiality, its power." #radish
1m
🎈Finishing up a #residency today at a local Title I #school with a Poetry #Picnic! #3rd-graders will be sharing their "#Maps in My Mind: #Poems of #Exploration and Imagination." 🗺️Next up: Summer@the Studio! #workshops all summer long. #kidswrite #poetryworkshop #silverspring
May 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
🎈Finishing up a #residency today at a local Title I #school with a Poetry #Picnic! #3rd-graders will be sharing their "#Maps in My Mind: #Poems of #Exploration and Imagination." 🗺️Next up: Summer@the Studio! #workshops all summer long. #kidswrite #poetryworkshop #silverspring
Happy to learn that a panel proposal I'm part of was accepted for the program at @NCTE2025. Looking forward to presenting DREAMS+FACTS? POETRY! with @margaritaengle.bsky.social @caroleweatherford.bsky.social Margaret Simon and Marilyn Singer! Stay tuned for details...
May 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Happy to learn that a panel proposal I'm part of was accepted for the program at @NCTE2025. Looking forward to presenting DREAMS+FACTS? POETRY! with @margaritaengle.bsky.social @caroleweatherford.bsky.social Margaret Simon and Marilyn Singer! Stay tuned for details...
Almost time for the #GaithersburgBookFestival!!
Leading an #ekphrastic #poetry #workshop for #kids and #families on Saturday, May 17 @ Bohrer Park.
#kidswrite #poetryworkshop #familyfun #photo #poem #gburgbookfest
Leading an #ekphrastic #poetry #workshop for #kids and #families on Saturday, May 17 @ Bohrer Park.
#kidswrite #poetryworkshop #familyfun #photo #poem #gburgbookfest
May 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Almost time for the #GaithersburgBookFestival!!
Leading an #ekphrastic #poetry #workshop for #kids and #families on Saturday, May 17 @ Bohrer Park.
#kidswrite #poetryworkshop #familyfun #photo #poem #gburgbookfest
Leading an #ekphrastic #poetry #workshop for #kids and #families on Saturday, May 17 @ Bohrer Park.
#kidswrite #poetryworkshop #familyfun #photo #poem #gburgbookfest
Almost time for the #GaithersburgBookFestival!!
#kidswrite #poetryworkshop #familyfun #ekphrastic #photo #poem #gburgbookfest
#kidswrite #poetryworkshop #familyfun #ekphrastic #photo #poem #gburgbookfest
May 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Almost time for the #GaithersburgBookFestival!!
#kidswrite #poetryworkshop #familyfun #ekphrastic #photo #poem #gburgbookfest
#kidswrite #poetryworkshop #familyfun #ekphrastic #photo #poem #gburgbookfest
May 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"The #EPA fired around 280 staffers and reassigned around 175 others on #EarthDay. The employees were tasked with ensuring that #federal policies protected #underservedcommunities from experiencing negative health & environmental impacts from pollution and climate change..." CNN
#snails #dontgiveup
#snails #dontgiveup
April 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"The #EPA fired around 280 staffers and reassigned around 175 others on #EarthDay. The employees were tasked with ensuring that #federal policies protected #underservedcommunities from experiencing negative health & environmental impacts from pollution and climate change..." CNN
#snails #dontgiveup
#snails #dontgiveup
There's lots of exciting--and positive--action going on over at WHISPERshout Writing Workshop. Poetry residencies at Cloverly ES, Germantown ES, a school in Sacramento, CA, Eastern MS! Stop over if you haven't in a while.
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Bonus ode for your Saturday morning, too!
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Bonus ode for your Saturday morning, too!
March 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
There's lots of exciting--and positive--action going on over at WHISPERshout Writing Workshop. Poetry residencies at Cloverly ES, Germantown ES, a school in Sacramento, CA, Eastern MS! Stop over if you haven't in a while.
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Bonus ode for your Saturday morning, too!
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Bonus ode for your Saturday morning, too!
#smallpoemsunday #poetrysky
an American Sentence (Ginsberg's version of 17 syllables)
the first blooms arrive a little blurry, but they haven't forgotten.
an American Sentence (Ginsberg's version of 17 syllables)
the first blooms arrive a little blurry, but they haven't forgotten.
March 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
#smallpoemsunday #poetrysky
an American Sentence (Ginsberg's version of 17 syllables)
the first blooms arrive a little blurry, but they haven't forgotten.
an American Sentence (Ginsberg's version of 17 syllables)
the first blooms arrive a little blurry, but they haven't forgotten.
❣️This is a day to celebrate BOOKLOVE❣️ along with all the other kinds! Any minute the #Cybils Awards will be announced! Here are the Poetry Collection and Novel-in-Verse Finalists...which ones did the Round 2 Judges (moi included) think you MUST NOT MISS? www.cybils.com/.../cybils20...
#kidlit #poets
#kidlit #poets
February 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
❣️This is a day to celebrate BOOKLOVE❣️ along with all the other kinds! Any minute the #Cybils Awards will be announced! Here are the Poetry Collection and Novel-in-Verse Finalists...which ones did the Round 2 Judges (moi included) think you MUST NOT MISS? www.cybils.com/.../cybils20...
#kidlit #poets
#kidlit #poets
Announcing the Jan issue of WHISPERshout Poetry Magazine, featuring poems by 4th graders + #watercolor paintings! Celebrate #imbolc with poems of light! bit.ly/WHISPERshout...
#poetrybykids #kidlit #kidswrite
#poemsbykids #kidpoetsofinstagram
#lightinthedark #poemsforthepeople
#poemsforpersistence
#poetrybykids #kidlit #kidswrite
#poemsbykids #kidpoetsofinstagram
#lightinthedark #poemsforthepeople
#poemsforpersistence
January 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Announcing the Jan issue of WHISPERshout Poetry Magazine, featuring poems by 4th graders + #watercolor paintings! Celebrate #imbolc with poems of light! bit.ly/WHISPERshout...
#poetrybykids #kidlit #kidswrite
#poemsbykids #kidpoetsofinstagram
#lightinthedark #poemsforthepeople
#poemsforpersistence
#poetrybykids #kidlit #kidswrite
#poemsbykids #kidpoetsofinstagram
#lightinthedark #poemsforthepeople
#poemsforpersistence
Thinking about that Kurt Vonnegut quote about the role of artists…
January 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Thinking about that Kurt Vonnegut quote about the role of artists…
Spent the week doing my #TeachingArtist thing w #4th & #5th graders. Always a thrill to find perfect mentor #poems by my friends in the #kidlit community: MEngle, JPat Lewis, SVardell, JWong, JSidman! Kids' original poems will be featured at bit.ly/WHISPERshout...
#kidpoets #poetry #inperson #online
#kidpoets #poetry #inperson #online
January 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Spent the week doing my #TeachingArtist thing w #4th & #5th graders. Always a thrill to find perfect mentor #poems by my friends in the #kidlit community: MEngle, JPat Lewis, SVardell, JWong, JSidman! Kids' original poems will be featured at bit.ly/WHISPERshout...
#kidpoets #poetry #inperson #online
#kidpoets #poetry #inperson #online
So pleased to be included in this gorgeous Vol.2 of Entre Magazine, which specializes in states of betweenness.
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#litmag #queerart #mixedidentity #cultureart #genderart
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#litmag #queerart #mixedidentity #cultureart #genderart
January 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
So pleased to be included in this gorgeous Vol.2 of Entre Magazine, which specializes in states of betweenness.
entremagazine.com
#litmag #queerart #mixedidentity #cultureart #genderart
entremagazine.com
#litmag #queerart #mixedidentity #cultureart #genderart
I didn't care for my first word, so I tried again; now it looks like 2025 will be a bit of a seesaw for me... #wordoftheyear #olw
January 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I didn't care for my first word, so I tried again; now it looks like 2025 will be a bit of a seesaw for me... #wordoftheyear #olw
Happy New Year's Eve, all! Have a ball-drop poem.
@mostpoetry #NYPC 24.17 "unresolved"
#poemsforthepeople #time #nye
#newyearseve2024 #poemsforpersistence
#human #poetry #fuzzy
@mostpoetry #NYPC 24.17 "unresolved"
#poemsforthepeople #time #nye
#newyearseve2024 #poemsforpersistence
#human #poetry #fuzzy
December 31, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Happy New Year's Eve, all! Have a ball-drop poem.
@mostpoetry #NYPC 24.17 "unresolved"
#poemsforthepeople #time #nye
#newyearseve2024 #poemsforpersistence
#human #poetry #fuzzy
@mostpoetry #NYPC 24.17 "unresolved"
#poemsforthepeople #time #nye
#newyearseve2024 #poemsforpersistence
#human #poetry #fuzzy
nypc24.3 "a bold choice" @mostpoetry
#poemsforthepeople #poemsforpersistence
#human #nature #poetry #reelsvideo not #longesttitleever
#poemsforthepeople #poemsforpersistence
#human #nature #poetry #reelsvideo not #longesttitleever
December 19, 2024 at 2:34 AM
nypc24.3 "a bold choice" @mostpoetry
#poemsforthepeople #poemsforpersistence
#human #nature #poetry #reelsvideo not #longesttitleever
#poemsforthepeople #poemsforpersistence
#human #nature #poetry #reelsvideo not #longesttitleever