We don't have seasons where I live, except hot and a bit less hot, so I always enjoy watching the seasons change from afar.  A friend...

Several Poetry Fridays have gone by without a post.  I still seem to be working on getting back my equilibrium and adjusting to the changes ...

I posted here and here about our Open Mic events that we had here at school last year for National Poetry Month.  This school year we'...

I'm not sure where August went.  I remember it was a really sad month, as I said goodbye to my firstborn and dropped her off at college....

Here's today's roundup.

I seem to have read a lot of forgettable rubbish lately.  I'm embarrassed to include some of them in my list, but here they are: Book ...

It's Poetry Friday again!  I have been working in my classroom all week, getting ready for school to start next week.  We are going to s...

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!