Poetry and the Genuine: Now I Become Myself What might happen if we “quiet our need to steer the plot”?   Or think about the cost of not saying “I am who I am”?   Do you, too, find thoughts such as...

Since the moment my friendship with Lucille began in 1989, I feel as if almost everything I’ve learned about life and love and being human (in this both wondrous and often terrifying world), I learned from her, my friend and...

Back in April for Poetry Month, Bill Murray was asked to share his favorite poems for Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine.   Murray chose Lucille Clifton’s “What the Mirror Said” as one of his four favorite poems for the article. On his...

Lucille Clifton believed in the liberating possibilities of learning – and she treasured the schools and teachers who invited and nurtured it. Her personal commitment to her students was unwavering and they in turn were deeply grateful for her incisive mind, her...

            the river between us in the river that your father fished my father was baptized.    it was their hunger that defined them, one, a man who knew he could feed himself if it all...

For our second post in the “Week of Lucille Clifton” — here is Kathleen Glaser’s reflections on Lucille Clifton’s “blessing the boats” from Teaching with Heart.         blessing the boats (at St. Mary’s) may the tide that...

Today is the anniversary of Lucille Clifton’s birthday.  She was a remarkable woman and poet. Though she is no longer with us, her poetry still speaks to us. Throughout the “Week of Lucille Clifton” — we will post her poems...

Here are two great ideas for celebrating Poem in Your Pocket Day. In Teaching with Heart, Jovan Miles, a high school math coach, shared how he shares poems in his pocket to engage students throughout the year.   Check it out...

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...

Leading from Within and Flawless Leadership: As we mentioned last week, we’re going to use #Throwback Thursdays to re-introduce or bring to light something new about Teaching with Heart, Leading from Within or Teaching with Fire. In February, we were...