A Year of Reading

Back in May, I learned that one of my poems on YDP ( Your Daily Poem ) made the cut for 100 chosen as "the best of YDP!" The ...

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 Three tries, three very different poems. life was art no order perplexing harmonies I was left feeling dizzy the thing was I had imagined s...

  image via Unsplash Now That Juneteenth is a National Holiday We pause in honor of Liberty, Hope, and Resiliency. We pause with clear-eyed ...

Learning Arabic is more than just driving on the left in England. It's driving on the left with no cognates on the map, an alphabet con...

It's that time again. Six months have passed since last we queued up to host the Poetry Friday roundups. If you'd like to host a...

  image via Unsplash Ways to Reappear In the dawn Down a path Through tall pines Come to With a grin In a flash Down to earth In a spotlight...

Dear Poetry Friday Peeps, I feel like there has been a wrinkle in time, and I am right back where I was last week.  A week ago, I had comple...

Join us in celebrating Mary Lee's Retirement!  It's a Poetry Friday Takeover in Honor of #MarvelousMaryLee Join in the fun with #Poe...

ARRIVAL I await a cicada the first to emerge from its underground burrow at the oak’s brown skirt. Wingless at first then red-eyed and loud ...

To My Students I am the riverbank and you are the water. You flow past me year after year fresh  eager a little wild. ...

  Welcome to the first Friday of National Poetry Month! Susan has the Poetry Month Project Roundup for lots of Poetry Friday bloggers' ...

photo via Unsplash Here is the version we know and love. At the same time I was using this as a mentor text, my students and I were delving ...

My students love Poetry Friday. They've never experienced it the way we did it in the past -- browsing for a book on the tall white shel...

photo via Unsplash Momentum When you take your foot off the gas pedal and roll to a stop in front of your house. When you stop pumping your ...

  photo via Unsplash Perspective All my life you've been a dipper. Just this morning, though, as I wondered whether you were telling me ...

photo via Unsplash Each day I thread the needle of my heart and stitch together my quilt-square students into a tapestry of joy and learning...

  image via Unsplash It's good to be back. I got overwhelmed by online teaching and a couple of other projects that landed on my plate. ...

  image via Unsplash What I'm pondering as I eat my humble breakfast: A Quiet Life by Baron Wormser What a person desires in life is a p...

  Amanda Gorman That is all, because she is all that. Laura Shovan has this week's Poetry Friday roundup at her blog, Laura Shovan .