I just recently discovered A Year of Being Here, a wonderful website of “daily mindfulness poetry by wordsmiths of the here & now.”  As good projects are wont to do, “a year” became three. While it concluded in January 2016,...

Celebrating Poetry On her blog, My Head is Full of Books, Anne Bennett, a school librarian, posted a lot of terrific ideas for celebrating and using poetry (see below). Fortunately it didn’t rain and she was able to send us...

Using Poetry to remember to find what is beautiful in children:   In Teaching with Fire, one teacher told us that she taped the line “Life has loveliness to sell” from Sara Teasdale’s poem “Barter” onto her steering wheel so...

Nominate your favorite poet or poem for the next “Week of…” Who’s your favorite poet? What’s your favorite poem? We had such a great time with the “Week of Fire” that we decided to dedicate a week each month to...