A Year of Reading

photo via Unsplash It's the Poetry Sisters' last challenge for 2020: to write to the theme of "Wish I'd Been There," o...

Irene Latham's blog name is my inspiration this week: Live Your Poem . This week's poem began by planting seeds for my students'...

In the podcast Poetry Unbound , Pádraig Ó Tuama always begins with something like "One of the things I love most about poetry is...&quo...

Novelist and poet Irene Latham has never shied away from hard topics. With Charles Waters, she has tackled race and racism head on (pun inte...

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...