A Year of Reading

AFTER APPLE PICKING by Robert Frost My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a ba...

For the next half of National Poetry Month 2017,  Malvina will Sing It, and I'll write a poem in response. Through her musi...

MESSENGER My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quic...

The Real Work by Wendell Berry It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we n...

The game is ON! Ed DeCaria, at Think, Kid, Think , is hosting a March Madness Tournament of Children's Poetry. There are 64 poets si...

( Check out this graphic from the blog Indexed before reading the poem .) October in the Elementary School Developmental Reading Assessments...

For my grade level, after a release day of intense work: To Be of Use by Marge Piercy The people I love the best jump into work head first...