It was Naomi Shihab Nye week with my 8th graders; every day we read one of her poems.  Here's part of one I didn't read with them.  ...

In this short life that only lasts an hour How much - how little - is within our power Emily Dickinson I'm sick in bed today with mos...

Book #32 of this year was a teacher book, How's it Going?: A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers , by Carl Anderson.  I d...

In spite of my last minute request, my tag-ee for the Mortimer Minute has graciously agreed to post next week.  Janet, who blogs at Across t...

I was tagged last Friday by Liz Steinglass .  Here are the guidelines for the Mortimer Minute: 1) Pose and answer three questions you’v...

One of the people who died in Nairobi in the attack on the Westgate mall was Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor.  The New Yorker published this trib...

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...