A Year of Reading

one month, thirty days seventeen syllable rut ready for a change ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021 Happy end of National Poetry Month! Matt has this week...

antiracism it's urgent, not optional sacrifice comfort ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021 Found haiku while listening to Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul speak a...

playground drama duck nest under the slide brave mama ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021  

summer in a jar basil, parmesan, garlic tastebud time travel ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021  

just strolling along big leather feet flap flapping parking lot goose ©Mary Lee Hahn  

we turned a corner (the redbuds are leafing out) over there -- summer ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021  

one slip I guess the knife is still sharp blood mixes with onions ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021  

car changes color maroon with a glaze of gold oak pollen season ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021 Catherine has this week's Poetry Friday Roundup at ...

  nature teaches us expect the unexpected snow in late April ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

when will justice be expected immutable like rock not spring snow ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021  

How do you pack a decades-long friendship into a three-line haiku? Committees, roadtrips, Twitter, blog, NCTE, breakfast at NorthStar. Happy...

  quanto basta as much as you need spring garden ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

suddenly there's shade branches with buds subitize shadows gain substance ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021  

old trees make new leaves bark is rough but roots are strong spring becomes summer ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021  

  When will we decide to stop squandering our home? We act like there's time. ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021 Nowhere Else to Go by Linda Sue Park ...

ask those hard questions spotlight inequalities then make good trouble ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021  

  white privilege abounds black lives matter on yard signs and I write haiku ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

  we teach the wrong things: task completion, not passion test taking, not joy ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021 We've got seven weeks left, and I...

  after the cold snap glorious magnolias wear brown in mourning ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

  illumination sun shines through dirty windows with no prejudice ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021