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"Clear Thinking about Mixed Feelings": A Guest Post at Teachers Write 20 Jun 2012 | 01:20 am
I'm guest posting about poetry and inspiration at Kate Messner's fabulous virtual writing camp, Teachers Write, today. You may recognize some of the themes I talk about (and even the actual words!) a...
Poetry Friday: Renku 5 May 2012 | 01:38 am
Poetry ought to be taught in schools as a game. I mean it. All the way up to high school and beyond. We start this way---with hand clap rhymes, or raps, or silly jingles which we make even sillier, ...
April is Poetry #30 1 May 2012 | 01:32 pm
The orange truck moves from block to block. Sometimes, kids watch. A cat slinks by. During the next storm, we'll be glad of the branches trimmed to limits. But sometimes, I want to tear down the ...
April is Poetry: #28 and #29 (Citizen Science) 30 Apr 2012 | 03:23 pm
Oh, April is speeding by! This weekend was gone in a flash, but that's because any time I have with the fabulous Loree Griffin Burns is always too short. Loree was in town for the USA Science and Eng...
Poetry Friday: A Love Song 28 Apr 2012 | 12:46 am
This has been a week of singing. My fledgling efforts to learn a single song have been alternately giddy and frustrating. For one thing, I've discovered that I'm completely unused to singing to musi...
April is Poetry #26 27 Apr 2012 | 07:07 am
Poetry with friends Interlacing daisy chains Forgot yoga class Ah, well. My head was in the poetry clouds. Working on a new group poetry project for tomorrow! Hint: it's haiku and it's the Poetry Sev...
April is Poetry #25 26 Apr 2012 | 01:29 am
Every morning on the back patio, my dog, paws delicately crossed, keeps watch like a stone lion for the neighbor's cat. At least, so she says. What really happens is that she leaps for the first ava...
April is Poetry #23 and #24 25 Apr 2012 | 01:44 am
Last night, my dear husband and his age-mellowed guitar took it upon themselves to help me begin to learn to sing a song. A single song. ONE. We aren't going for "teaching me to sing." No. This is g...
April is Poetry #22: Open House at the Folger Shakespeare Library 23 Apr 2012 | 08:46 am
Some pictures from the annual open house today at the Folger Shakespeare Library: Happiness reigned. For some. I think the little one in the pink bow is saying: This is SO not my century. But ...
April is Poetry #21 22 Apr 2012 | 12:55 am
I wrote about the dog park earlier. One of the nicest things is how well the dogs get along, even with my grumpy pet, a miniature Australian shepherd. Naturally territorial and excessively protectiv...
