I missed a whole month of Poetry Fridays!  I am back home now, ready to enjoy the last few days of summer before I go back to work.  The sum...

This has turned out to be a more eventful summer than anticipated.  Here are the links to the last two Poetry Friday roundups.  I'll be ...

I completely missed that yesterday was Friday.  Such is a teacher's summer.  Here is yesterday's roundup, since apparently some peo...

I shared this poem once before back in 2008. I love how specific it is, and how it places us in one unrepeatable moment. Adlestrop   E...

Book #35 was Handle with Care and #36 was Plain Truth , both by Jodi Picoult.  These aren't great literature, but they are absorbing ...

I guess this must be one of my favorite poems, since this is the third time I have posted it on my blog.  I shared it in May 2010 and again...

Even though school's been out for a couple of weeks now, I was on campus yesterday looking for a particular book.  I found it, and then ...

Book #22 of 2015 was Love at the Speed of Email: A Memoir , by Lisa McKay.  I found this author when a Facebook friend posted an update fro...

This song is pure summer to me; it expresses the feeling of dozing on a hot afternoon, having deep dreams, hearing the buzzing fly, waki...

I finished cleaning my classroom today and covering all my shelves for the summer.  Tomorrow my daughter is graduating.  I'm not up to p...

I saw a post on this blog encouraging people to report on how they are doing with their OLW (One Little Word).  Mine this year is "Una...

Yesterday I read Sara Holbrook's poem "The Fear Factor," from The Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School , with my seventh ...

Another post-less week.  It's just that time of year.  But look at all the other great Poetry Friday offerings!

What with a bake sale today with my seventh graders and catching up on grading, I never got a post done.  But lots of others did, and you ca...

Yesterday afternoon we had another Open Mic event at school ( here's my post about the one last week ), and there's talk of making t...

“Ocean Dreams” (The 2015 Poetry Friday Progressive Poem) She lives without a net, walking along the alluvium of the delta. Shoes swing ...

I like where the poem went today.  This seems to explain much.  The formatting, on the other hand, has gone away completely, and the lines a...

She lives without a net, walking along the alluvium of the delta. Shoes swing over her shoulder, on her bare feet stick jeweled flecks of d...

I'm not sure I got the formatting right - I'm getting a little confused about what lines go where.  But here is the poem, up to date...

She lives without a net, walking along the alluvium of the delta. Shoes swing over her shoulder, on her bare feet stick jeweled fleck...