"Who are you?" I've spent time sitting through the "Students at a Glance" meeting and talking with other teachers ab...

Those of us who thrive in the classroom environment have now been out of school long enough to be thinking of "next year." (Actual...

My preference is usually for "uplifting" poetry, that which (along with everything it does for cognition and imagination by soundi...

Welcome to my first-ever Poetry Friday host post! I'm thrilled to have the honor and let me say it was no small thing to get a slot--thi...

Yee-haw! By special arrangement with Mary Lee over at A Year of Reading , the Poetry Friday Round-up will be HERE next week. See you on the ...

I've been a fan of Natalie Merchant since near the beginning, and many of her songs with the band 10,000 Maniacs are in my top 50 of al...

At the ALA in Washington Monday, on the way from Gianormo Convention Center Building #1 to Gianormo Convention Center Building #2, I asked ...

Today (behind the times as always) Kay Ryan is my hero. The poem below is what made me go looking for more; it's one of those included...

Well. Sooner than we expected, the school system reviewers and the Superintendent made their recommendation against approval to the Board of...

T he biting cold wind of middle age has swept in, and there is no doubt that my middle-aged brain can't do what it used to. I used to ...

We have arrived at the last poem in the charter school application. I post it from a position of even greater optimism than usual, after a ...