What with National Poetry Month and Lent and some rough emotional experiences in the past few months, I've had lots of opportunities lat...

I've been reading poems about nature with my eighth graders, and since we live in the city, I'm always on the lookout for great natu...

Because my husband knows that my love language is language, he wrote this poem for me.  It made me very happy, and I'm sharing it with h...

Four years ago yesterday, I shared "To a Frustrated Poet," by R. J. Ellmann . ... it's no fun having a frustrated poet In t...

In this post from February 2011 , I shared the poem "Before the Rain," by Lianne Spidel.  I commented on how it caught a good note...

In January 2009, I linked to this poem by Tiel Aisha Ansari. Through the years I have shared several of her poems, including this one in 20...

In September 2010, I posted an Emily Dickinson poem about grief.  It begins like this: I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing,...

I signed up for April 23rd to add my line to the Progressive Poem because it is the birthday of my blog.  Today my blog is eleven, and like ...

Tomorrow is my day to contribute a line to the Progressive Poem, so I'm reading it in-depth this afternoon and considering the possibili...

In July 2012 I posted this Mary Oliver poem . Jone has today's line for the Progressive Poem.

Last week I wrote this National Poetry Month haiku: Inbox of poems: April’s blooming gift of words Transforms a Tuesday I do love all ...

Today's offering is another one that isn't in my archives; my daughter sent it to me yesterday.  It's a poem about laundry. ...

A Small Blue Thing (original post from November 2013). Here's today's line for the Progressive Poem. 

Back in April 2009, the official poster for National Poetry Month had a quote from " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."  (Ther...

In April 2011 I posted an Edward Hirsch poem about happiness, and then one of my own.   Hirsch is responding to the idea that it's easie...

Here's what I posted for Easter in April 2011 , just over fifteen months after the earthquake. And Joy has today's line.

Book 22 of 2017 was Half of a Yellow Sun , by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.  This is a terrific, vivid, heartbreaking book about the Biafran Wa...

I know my plan was to share from my archives this month, but this one just seems so appropriate for Holy Saturday and springtime that I hav...

I was looking back through the poems I've chosen for past Good Fridays, and I discovered that in 2008 I posted some George Herbert , in ...

I'd forgotten all about a poem I shared in September 2012 in this post , "The Sciences Sing a Lullabye," by Albert Goldbarth. ...