I was walking across campus the other day and thinking about the hundreds and hundreds of students that I have taught, and how at the end of...

One of my tasks in this last week of classes is to pass out the students' reading folders and have them count how many books they finish...

Days I Delighted in Everything by Jessica Greenbaum    I was listening to a book on tape while drivin...

We have the day off today for Flag Day (flag below, and national anthem in this post ), so I am celebrating by writing a Reading Update post...

Last week for Poetry Friday Michelle Kogan shared a poem about Mexico that included this phrase: "the red bougainvillea raves."  I...

During National Poetry Month, I got a poem-a-day email from Knopf, and on the 9th, that poem was Jill Bialosky's "Daylight Savings....

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...