A Year of Reading

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...

I joined Spark for the first time. Spark 46, the last round for 2020. A creativity challenged seemed like good way to end this wackadoodle y...

  Janet Wong, recipient of the 2021  Excellence in Poetry for Children Award I Am Every Good Thing, winner of the 2021 Charlotte Huck Award ...

 This morning, between this page (which I've already seen) in my Everyday Offerings book... ...and this page (which I've already see...

Today, the book Everyday Advocacy: Teachers Who Change the Literacy Narrative by Cathy Fleischer and Antero Garcia is available! This is an...

 I got way behind posting my daily haiku on Twitter with #haikudiary and #poeticdiversion, but I kept at it in my notebook. Here are the wee...

  On Wednesday, I received the best gift of all -- the right poem at the right time. I'm still grieving the loss of The Slowdown podcast...

Back on September 3, Laura Purdie Salas shared a poem written using a wordplay form that was the challenge Nikki Grimes offered up at Today...

a tree in our neighborhood   A t first, it goes U nnoticed. T hen it is U ndeniable. Almost like M agic, summer is gone. N o more shorts and...

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