Poetry Friday: The Joy of Making
. Catherine chose the Inklings’ challenge for this month. She found her inspiration in an “Invitation for Writing and Reflection” from How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, edited by James Crews. Using Sally Bliumis-Dunn‘s poem, “Work” as our mentor text, Catherine (and Crews) asked us to consider …a time when you felt so consumed…
Poetry Friday: Permission
This month, the Poetry Sisters wrote Cascade poems that perhaps address our year-long theme of “Transformation.” The form is cookie-cutter easy, but evocative-images hard. I wrote plenty of the first kind before I found the first stanza of this draft in my notebook jottings on January 2. Here’s what the rest of the Poetry Sisters…
The Power of Choice
Last week, I took part in the @textileartsite (textileartist.org) #StitchCamp. I learned to use paint on fabric, cut apart and recombine bits of painted fabric, and add all kinds of stitching to blend the pieces into a unified whole. Then, on the day when the final video dropped, I lost interest. I finally had a…
Poetry Friday: Taking Down the Tree
after “Taking Down the Tree” by Jane Kenyon “...If it’s darkness we’re having, let it be extravagant.” We took down the tree packed it in its box swept up the plastic needles carefully stored the ornaments shelved the quiet holiday we’ve learned to make our own – mostly pagan and secular yet there are angels…
Poetry Friday: Rhyming Fairy Tales
My work so far as the Kids Club Reading Specialist has been very peripheral, very fragmented. I’m at each site weekly, and I’ve met with students one-on-one or in small groups every other week…if we’re lucky and their parents don’t pick them up in the middle of a lesson or before we even get started.…
Poetry Friday: Change
Heidi gave the Inklings our January challenge: “Write a poem which weighs the pros and cons of #change. For extra fun, use any form, but consider starting in one form and gradually transitioning in the course of the poem to a quite different form.” Oof. Not a small challenge to tackle in the midst of…
Sixteen
In January of 2006, Franki and I started blogging at A Year of Reading. We had no idea what we were doing, but we jumped in and gave it a whirl. The blog was intended to be a place where we would chat about books and make our Newbery predictions. The first few months of…
Poetry Friday: Box
The topic for the Poetry Sisters’ December Challenge was Box. We met to write and brainstorm on Boxing Day, after opening a few boxes on Christmas. Box is such a rich topic: boxes of chocolate, thinking outside the box, boxes of family heirlooms in the basement, feeling boxed in. They constrain and contain, have sides,…
Poetry Friday: Umbrella Arts
This poem was obviously not written about the current bitter Arctic weather, but rather last week’s morning walk in a mild rainy mist. There’s always weather, whether or not we choose to go out walking in it! (I’ll pass today, thank you very much!) Best wishes for whatever year-end holidays you celebrate! And if you…
Poetry Friday: Call for Roundup Hosts
It’s that time again. Six months have passed since last we queued up to host the Poetry Friday roundups.What is the Poetry Friday roundup? A gathering of links to posts featuring original or shared poems, or reviews of poetry books. A carnival of poetry posts. Here is an explanation that Rene LaTulippe shared on her…
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A(nother) Year of Reading 