• Poetry Friday June 9, 2023

        Buffy Silverman is our Poetry Friday host this week. Hop on over for the roundup.   Haiku of the Week   despite the rain spider must welcome the wildflower   Haiku & Photo © 2023 Marcie Flinchum Atkins     Photo Taken: May 2, 2023 at Huntley Meadows…

  • Poetry Friday June 2, 2023

      Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect is hosting today. Hop on over there to see the roundup.      Haiku of the Week   twilight shore seaweed’s arms drink salty water living sculpture   Haiku & Photo © 2023 Marcie Flinchum Atkins   Photo Taken: North Topsail Beach…

  • Poetry Friday: When Everything Converges

    Patricia Franz is hosting our Poetry Friday roundup today.      When Everything Converges I’ve reached that time in the year when all things are happening at once. My novel-in-verse revision is due next week. I just started taking a college class on local history. I have book fair…

  • Poetry Friday May 19, 2023

    Janice at Salt City Verse has the Poetry Friday roundup today.     Haiku of the Week     swallowtail’s patience— open-close-open-close until first flight   Photo and Haiku © 2023 Marcie Flinchum Atkins   Photo Taken: April 14, 2023 at my sit spot Haiku Written: April 14, 2023…

  • Poetry Friday: A Double Book Announcement

      Robyn at Life on the Deckle Edge is hosting today. Hop on over there for the roundup.    Book News! Book News! Book News!   I haven’t had a book to announce in a few years, but I’ve been diligently working on several things.   I’m excited to…

  • Poetry Friday: Highlights of Highlights

      Linda at the Teacher Dance is our Poetry Friday host for the week. Hop on over there for the roundup.      Highlights of Highlights   At the beginning of April, I had such a great opportunity to go to Highlights for Charles Waters’ and Irene Latham’s fabulous…

  • Poetry Friday: More Poetry Odds and Ends

      Karen Edmisten is hosting today, so head over there for the complete roundup.    Poetry Odds and Ends It’s Poetry Month and I’ve been doing poetry stuff all week! I’ve been at Highlights at a poetry workshop with Irene Latham and Charles Waters. Fellow Poetry Friday poets (and…

  • Progressive Poem Day 18

      Progressive Poem 2023 Each year the Poetry Friday community puts together a kidlit progressive poem. Each day, someone new adds a line.  Rules from Mary Lee Hahn’s blog. She posted on Day 1.  The rules are few: “The poem will be passing from blog to blog with each…

  • Picture of a blue notebook with a Mary Oliver quote that says, "The flowers were dressed in nothing but light." The notebook is next to a copy of the Mary Oliver poetry collection, WHY I WAKE EARLY.

    Poetry Friday: My Mary Oliver Plunge

    Newsletter! I have a teacher & librarian useletter that I send out on the 15th of every month. If you don’t subscribe and would like to, please click here to sign up. It goes out tomorrow.      This week’s Poetry Friday host is Jone Rush MacCullough. Click here…

  • Poetry Friday: Poetry News from Vacation

    Margaret at Reflections on the Teche is our host this week for Poetry Friday.    I always joke that things happen when I’m on vacation. Once, I left my laptop at home when we went on vacation and I had a bunch of things to respond to writing-wise.  …