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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  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...

  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...

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 ...

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