A Year of Reading

  For the Poetry Sisters' monthly challenge , I searched up my birth year on Merriam Webster's Time Traveler site. From the list of...

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

  Photo via Unsplash A List of Things That Will Set You Free – Joyce Sidman Feet. Wheels. Wind. Sunshine. Words. Music. A voice. A t...

Last Thursday, my students weren't ready to talk about the takeover of the Capitol. So we got on with our day. Truth be told, I wasn'...

What a week. But also -- what a week in poetry. On Tuesday, as I drove towards the beginning of the second half of the grand experiment know...

The poem of the day today from Poets.org is Day 29 (2020) by Jamila Woods . Her poem was inspired by Things I Didn't Know I Loved by Naz...

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...