Small Reads for Brighters Days
Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Well, it’s been a tough last 6 weeks. Our family has had the death of my father-in-law, two previously unplanned trips to Georgia (so glad Randy could be with his father before he passed), Covid-19 (despite being fully vaxxed and boosted), 3 weeks and counting […]
Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) So, this month, our Poetry Princess challenge was Tanita’s choice: A villanelle on a wintry topic, including a pair of words (or homonyms thereof) from the following eleven: bleak, draft, gutter, chill, chime, glitter, gust, harsh, rime, nip, thaw. I always find the […]
Happy Poetry Friday! Usually, when I recommend poetry books–whether it’s to educators, kids, or aspiring poets–I recommend focusing on very current books. But Barbara Juster Esbensen is one of my favorites (see other posts where I’ve shared her work here and here and here), and her poems always feel like they could have been written […]
