COETAIL: "Lotus Wanting" on Notegraphy

Another post toward my Certificate in Educational Technology and Information Literacy (COETAIL)

There are lots of apps for poets, and recently more and more poets are sharing poems via apps. I came across the Notegraphy app thanks to A Year of Reading,  Kevin's Meandering Mind and Carol's Corner.

Notegraphy, a web and mobile app, combines text sharing and graphic design--perfect for poetry classrooms, I thought. I decided to give the app a try.

I used the NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) Day 2 prompt to write a poem about a myth. In my brainstorming I thought about how I'd believed what some people had told me--that lotus buds make a sound when they open, and how, despite my background in biology, I wanted so much for that myth to be true and investigated for myself at a lotus pond at dawn.

Here is the resulting poem, "Lotus Wanting. From start to finish, brainstorming, writing and publishing using Notegraphy, it took me about one hour.


Notegraphy was easy to use. There was a limited variety of designs to choose from, so hopefully more will be added. The app photo for sharing unfortunately centered all the text, but I was pleased that the published poem appears left justified, just as I wanted it to be. Of course I'll continue to revise and tinker with my "Lotus Wanting" poem, but it was a great motivator to use Notegraphy. I look forward to using this app with poetry students!