A Year of Reading

Inside the month I found the challenge. Inside the challenge I found the discipline. Inside the discipline I found the joy. Inside the joy I...

Franki sent a link to this book trailer and challenged me to try writing a Newspaper Blackout Poem. Every poem-a-day writer needs a cheerlea...

by Mary Lee Hahn, copyright 2010

You've written a poem a day! Every day you found something to say in a poem or verse, for better or worse. To each of you: HIP HIP HOORA...

You are the King Ingumpa* of the Fib Poem Form: Royal Ingumpa, indeed! by Mary Lee Hahn, copyright 2010 *A word verification nonsense "...

Dedicated to Franki (and with apologies to David R. Slavitt ) by Mary Lee Hahn, copyright 2010 Balance. Discussion Questions: 1. What is thi...

When at the coffee shop we both do sit and sip dark roast or other blended drink we open books and read for just a bit which turns into an h...

WHERE I'M FROM I'm from the smell of chlorine and the heat of sun-baked cement by the pool. I'm from cherry tomatoes...

Overheard at Spinning Class or The Last Six Weeks of School (or both) Hold that load! Don't touch that knob! You've got one more cha...

This week, I gave my students the option to write their responses to their nightly reading in haikus instead of sentences. I thought I'd...

Did I tell you about my students' National Poetry Month project? When they heard I was going to write a poem a day, one girl said, "...

Back in January, Father Goose (Charles Ghigna), introduced a new poetry form: the "If-You-Were" Poem. He explains the form in thi...

Jama Rattigan, at jama rattigan's alphabet soup , is hosting a potluck for National Poetry Month. Here's how she describes her yumm...

Sunday inertia last week . This week: momentum means completed list.

My students are as confident as racehorses in the starting gate. Our teacher is as nervous as a donut in the teacher's lounge. My studen...

Children learn to write poetry the same way they learn to ride a bike: follow the rules, break the rules, get silly and have some f...

Reading is breathing. We couldn't live without it. We've got books in our veins and stories in our souls. Our life work is to make r...

From across the gym, I see my student pick up his friend's little brother and start swinging him around and around. I step towards them ...

I never intended for my students to write a poem a day with me, but one student's idea took hold: we're writing a poem a day about e...

On the way home from school I drove past a very recent car accident. Pieces of bumper were scattered in the intersection. A bicycle lay on i...