Much thanks to Carol Varsalona , who sent me a lovely digital journal for the Summer Poetry Swap. Here are some screen grabs of it: ...

In an effort to lower my snarkiness level, I am going to write a post about what I've been reading. It's a challenge to find the per...

Welcome, fellow poetry lovers! I'm excited to welcome you to my blog to share your links. I have been participating in Poetry Friday for...

John Green referenced this poem on his podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed , which I frequently listen to with my son. In June's episode, ...

My daughter has lived in the desert this year. It's the first time she's lived somewhere I haven't been, and I squint at the rar...

I recently received several beautiful poems from Kat Apel as part of the Summer Poetry Swap (organized by Tabatha Yeatts - thanks, Tabatha...

  "Survivors deserve crosses too." This absorbing novel,  Fragments of Light, by Michèle Phoenix, is about several types of s...

Book #27 of 2020 was The Glass Hotel , by Emily St. John Mandel. I loved Station Eleven, which I read back in 2016. This one didn't re...

Today's roundup host, the inimitable Irene , has requested that we honor Nikki Grimes today. What a wonderful idea! Irene points out tha...

What an awful week it's been. What an awful year it's been. I have been posting a lot, here and on social media, about the generaliz...

I'm hosting our gathering this month, and our theme is Hope. (Welcome, SJT buddies! Leave your link in the comments and I will gradua...

Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer ...

Next week we're finishing up with school. Every year at this time I am grading huge piles of work and fretting that nobody learned as mu...

This poem was in the Academy of American Poets poem-a-day email back in March. I love the idea in it of storing up beauty so that you can e...

My eighth graders are listening to the story of the Trojan Horse today. Did you know that it isn't even in the Iliad? Most of the detail...

Our host for this month, Ramona , asks: "How has this time of COVID-19 strengthened your sense of connection and community?" I d...

I haven't written a Reading Update since February, so although my lack of focus has slowed down my reading considerably, I still have pl...