Posts Tagged ‘Poetry’
Gifts to Bring Back from the Seashore
Sharing a poem I wrote, “Gifts to Bring Back from the Seashore,” inspired by a writing retreat in Chacala, Mexico …
Read MoreA Favorite Poem
Pause a moment. Remember a favorite poem. Let it roll around in your mouth, tickle your heart. Let me lend you one of mine.
Read MoreSwish, Basketball
I am honored to have a poem included in What is a Friend?, the newest poetry anthology from Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong. (Listen to me read this essay. Scroll…
Read MoreA month … a year of poetry
Thank you for sharing this month of poetry. Poetry is quiet. Poetry roars. May poetry be part of many of your days this year.
Read MoreA Poem for Mothers
Sharing a poem by Julia Kasdorf
Read MoreJane Yolen
Can you tell us how your recent book When Nana Dances came to be? My co-author on this book, Maddison Stemple-Piatt, is my granddaughter. She was ten years old, in ballet…
Read MoreWe Belong, a Book Recommendation
In We Belong, with bright digital illustrations and a bouncy, engaging rhythm, Laura Purdie Salas introduces the reader to the many ways we are different as well as the many ways we all belong.
Read MoreNikki Grimes
When I asked Nikki to take part in my National Poetry Month celebration, I knew the possibilities of books to discuss were many. Nikki writes in poetry and sometimes prose, from picture books to middle grade novels to young adult books.
Read MoreSensory Images and Metaphor
Working with students in their classroom, after talking about creating sensory images and the use of metaphor, I read one of my favorite poems, “Seven Ways of Looking at Eagles,” written by Tonia Scabby Face, Lakota, a middle-school student at Red Cloud Indian School.
Read MoreWong and Vardell on Poetry
Today, in celebration of National Poetry Month, I’d like to share this video from Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell, talking about the book Good Luck Gold & more by Janet and sharing a poem from Jen Bryant, “Laugh,” in Pomelo Books’ Things We Do.
Read MoreApril Halprin Wayland
My friend, poet and teacher April Halprin Wayland, shares one of her poems with us, “Exercising My Voice.”
Read MoreJoy Harjo
A poem by Joy Harjo, poet, activist, educator, 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, Mvskoke [Creek] Nation
Read MoreJFK and Poetry
May I share a quote from John F. Kennedy that I keep above my desk?
Read MoreKindness
You don’t have to be good or first
Not even smartest or most right.
If you are kind, that is what our world needs most.
Fresh
To the writer, put this magnet on your refrigerator door, and reflect on this poem.
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