I decided to participate in two Summer Poetry Swaps this year, out of the five that Tabatha organized. When you sign up, Tabatha sends you ...

As a Facebook friend put it, "This has been the Aprilest June ever." I'm visiting my parents in the US, and it has been rainin...

I've been gearing up for days to write a poem, and it still hasn't happened, but a friend posted these Wendell Berry lines on Facebo...

Book #51 of the year was The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and M...

Since last Poetry Friday I have traveled to a different planet; it's impossible to believe that the United States and Haiti are in the s...

Today's host Ramona asked us to write about connection. Connection is very important to me; I value my friends and family and wish for ...

I started last year's "What I Learned in May" post by writing, "I don't think people learn much in May, at least not ...

Just over a month ago, Tabatha suggested that we should have a Naomi Shihab Nye day on Poetry Friday. A few days later, I read that Naomi S...

We've been climbing in seventh grade. Metaphorically, as we scaled the heights of the school year, but also literarily, as we ended the ...

Heavy Summer Rain Jane Kenyon   The grasses in the field have toppled, and in places it seems that a large, now absent, animal ...

We are testing at school this week, and I've finished all my grading and am not proctoring.  I left my Kindle at home by mistake, and ...

This week I read the story about Patroclus getting killed with my eighth graders. I also read this poem published in 2019, and its reference...

I don't know if you, Gentle Reader, have noticed, but I try to write positive things about my adopted country of Haiti. There is so much...

Our host for today, Carol , has asked us to write about the Spirit of Spring. In the traditional Christian church calendar (the western ...

April is National Poetry Month, so this year, as in the past, I learned a lot about poetry, and was introduced to many new-to-me poets and p...

Poems definitely add value to my life, but I have to say that the thirty days of National Poetry Month always wear me out. This year was no ...

I've been reading poems about the natural world with my eighth graders this month. Here are two bird poems I shared with them. Bird-Un...

This link from Linda's TeacherDance blog has been open on my desktop for a while. Linda is constantly creative and full of teaching ide...

This link from Heidi's Juicy Little Universe has been open on my desktop for a while.  She shares a Jane Hirshfield poem first about pe...

This month for National Poetry Month, I have been sharing links that are already open on my desktop. Today's post comes more from what...