I was looking for a poem about the beach, because we're going on our staff retreat this weekend at the beach.  But at the same time I wa...

I found this poem a couple of weeks ago by following a link from The Opposite of Indifference .  In "Monet Refuses the Operation,"...

I had Parent/Teacher conferences today and was frantically rushing to get my grades up to date beforehand - so for today I just have a link ...

I'm sure there will be a lot of Seamus Heaney posts today, since he died last week.  Someone posted this one on Facebook.  I wasn't ...

I had a dream last night that I had been kidnapped.  I had managed to escape from the kidnapper, but he was still in the house, and I didn...

I read this poem with my eighth graders every year and we speculate on the story behind it.  I love it because there is just the right level...

I don't know anything about Aimee Nezhukumatathil except what I read on Poetry Foundation , but I like reading her poems.  My favorite i...

Although we started school on Monday, I already have a day off, since August 15th is the Feast of the Assumption.  I wanted to blog about my...

Today was our first day of school; the high school students came to register, get lockers, and other administrative details.  I spent the af...

After five weeks of traveling, I'm home, but still not quite up to jumping back into Poetry Friday.  Next week... Meanwhile here's...

I've been watching the TCK series over at Djibouti Jones with interest.  She's featured many voices, and today she has mine.  Head ...

Traveling again yesterday, and next Friday too.  So once again, here's the link to what everyone else posted yesterday!  I'm lookin...

I'm falling down on the blogging job, and didn't even manage a post yesterday.  But my Poetry Friday cohorts did not let you down.  ...

I've been away from my computer all week, and just got back to it.  But lots of other people posted poems today, so go check out the rou...

Good Night Many ways to say good night. Fireworks at a pier on the Fourth of July spell it with red wheels and yellow spokes. They fi...

In the Library by Charles Simic    for Octavio There's a book called "A Dictionary of Angels." No one has opened it in...

I wrote here about the poetry session I attended on Monday. It was probably my favorite session of the whole conference, and it was a lot ...

In the opening session on the last day of the IRA Convention, we heard two great speakers.  The first was the Mayor of San Antonio, Julián C...

I just listened to this Poetry Magazine podcast, from November 2012 , and heard a wonderful poem by Idra Novey called "The Visitor....

As I've commented several times, my favorite sessions at the IRA Convention are the author panels. In the dystopia panel I attended on ...