Happy Poetry Friday! Thanks to Mary Lee Hahn at A Year of Reading for this week’s Poetry Friday Roundup. The poem I want to share this week comes from a delightful collection of poems by … Continue reading
August 3, 2018
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August 3, 2018
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Happy Poetry Friday! Thanks to Mary Lee Hahn at A Year of Reading for this week’s Poetry Friday Roundup. The poem I want to share this week comes from a delightful collection of poems by … Continue reading
January 5, 2018
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Thanks to Reading to the Core this week for hosting the Poetry Friday Roundup I always love the chance to read and share this Billy Collins’ poem on an actual snow day! I hope you enjoy it, wherever you are: … Continue reading
August 18, 2017
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We are more alike, my friends,
than we are unalike. Continue reading
August 11, 2017
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Thanks to Margaret over at Reflections on the Teche for hosting this week. It’s that time of summer when thoughts turn back to the classroom and I am missing having my own classroom to plan and prepare. I’ve been organizing … Continue reading
August 4, 2017
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Poetry Friday this week is hosted by Donna at Mainely Write So many people shared Emma Lazarus’s iconic poem this week, The New Colossus. It was a reminder of the power of poetry, of words put together on a page … Continue reading
August 27, 2015
by mnosal
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A recent post by Tara Smith over at Two Writing Teachers inspired me to reflect on my out routines and rituals around making poetry an every day part of my instruction, rather than contained in a unit of study to … Continue reading
August 14, 2015
by mnosal
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Thanks this week to My Juicy Little Universe for hosting Poetry Friday. I have chosen a poem about writing by one of my very favorite writers, Naomi Shihab Nye. I was browsing through some of my collected poems, and … Continue reading
August 7, 2015
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July 31, 2015
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My poem to share this week is an old favorite poem for mid-summer from a wonderful book of poems by James Stevenson: SUMMER STORM WHEN THE THUNDERSTORM COMES PUNCHING ITS WAY THROUGH TOWN, THE DOG … Continue reading
October 30, 2014
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For this week’s Poetry Friday, I chose this poem by one of my favorite poets. If you have a few moments to poke around the poetry foundation resources, read her bio. She is one of my writer heroes. … Continue reading