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Poetry Prompt: Finding Poetry from Fear

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

Author Callie Feyen takes a dare to write nature poetry, finding inspiration from daredevil Robert Frost.

Filed Under: Blog, nature, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

A Ritual to Read to Each Other: Reading for Earth’s Sake

By Megan Willome 6 Comments

parrot, Ted Chiang

Join author Megan Willome as she plunges into Ted Chiang’s ‘The Great Silence,’ with a parrot as a guide, just in time for Poetic Earth Month.

Filed Under: A Ritual to Read to Each Other, A Story in Every Soul, book reviews, nature, Poetic Earth Month, Short Story

Children’s Book Club: ‘A Cricket in Times Square’

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Garth Williams

What do a country cricket and a musician from Greek mythology have in common? Join author Megan Willome for the Children’s Book Club as she reads ‘A Cricket in Times Square.’

Filed Under: Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories, Music, nature

Listening to Poets in the Sounds of Silence

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

The Shaw Nature Reserve southwest of St. Louis is a place where silence reigns, and good conversations can be had with poets.

Filed Under: article, nature, Poems, poetry, Poets

Nature and “Dream Work”: We Had Mary Oliver for a Time

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Poet Mary Oliver showed us how to employ nature to come to terms with where we come from, and to point to where we might be going.

Filed Under: article, Mary Oliver, nature, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

By Heart: “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” + New Poetry Challenge

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

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Join author Megan Willome as she learns Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud” By Heart and considers authorship.

Filed Under: Blog, By Heart, nature, Nature Poems, Poems, Poets

Dreams & Imaginings: Trail Tags

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

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Author Megan Willome’s dream to earn more trail tags gets interrupted by lightning—and she ponders where to go from here.

Filed Under: Blog, nature, Walking, Walks and Meanderings

Children’s Book Club: “Blueberries for Sal”

By Megan Willome 11 Comments

Author Megan Willome and her mother and Little Sal and her mother and Little Bear and his mother get mixed up among the blueberries in this month’s Children’s Book Club.

Filed Under: book reviews, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, nature

Walking in the Dark: A Path Into Poetry

By Megan Willome 9 Comments

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Walking (especially in the dark) is author Megan Willome’s path to poetry. Her steps begin in early morning moonlight and sometimes trace past a windmill.

Filed Under: Haiku, Haiku Poems, nature, Nature Poems, poetry, Tea, Walking

Children’s Book Club: “Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees”

By Megan Willome 7 Comments

Nobel Peace Prize recipient Wangari Maathai loved people an the world by planting trees. Join author Megan Willome for a Children’s Book Club discussion.

Filed Under: book reviews, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, nature

Reader, Come Home: “Little Rhymes for Lowly Plants”

By Megan Willome 6 Comments

Reader Come Home

Join us for deep reading with author Megan Willome as we discuss a poetry collection about plants for Poetic Earth Month. And share your March pages for our Reader, Come Home column.

Filed Under: nature, Nature Poems, Poems, Poetic Earth Month, Reader Come Home

Tweetspeak Poetry Party, Part 2: Skywoman Braids Sweetgrass

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Stones in grass Braiding Sweetgrass

“Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer provided the prompts for Tweetspeak Poetry’s recent poetry party on Twitter. These are the final five poems.

Filed Under: article, nature, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, Twitter poetry

Tweetspeak Poetry Party: Skywoman Braids Sweetgrass

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Wildflowers Braiding Sweetgrass

Tweetspeak Poetry’s recent poetry party on Twitter resulted in ten poems about Skywoman, braiding sweetgrass, trees, and a gift.

Filed Under: article, nature, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, Twitter poetry

A Story in Every Soul: Step By Classical Step

By Dheepa Maturi 20 Comments

Bharath Natyam Indian Classical dance little girl

Dheepa R. Maturi shares how a story by E.M. Forster stirs hope, motivating her to re-examine her role in protecting the earth, step by step.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, nature

Traveling with Mark Twain and Eddy Harris on the Mississippi River

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

Canoe Mississippi River

Writer Eddy Harris canoed the Mississippi River in 1985, and he discovered that the river has its personality, its mood, and its conversations.

Filed Under: article, nature

Poets and Poems: David Whyte and “The Bell and the Blackbird”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Lagoon Reeds David Whyte

“The Bell and the Blackbird,” the new poetry collection by David Whyte, is full of surprises but retains Whyte’s trademark simplicity and depth.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, nature, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry reviews, Poets

Poets and Poems: Athena Kildegaard and “Course”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Birds Athena Kildegaard and Course

The poems of “Course” by Athena Kildegaard provide a kind of natural sanctuary, where one comes to watch and to listen to what the landscape has to say.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, nature, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Regional Tour: Of Alligators and Everglades

By Sandra Heska King 7 Comments

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Sandra Heska King has all the adventure—and alligators—she could ever want right in her own backyard, in the Everglades.

Filed Under: Blog, nature, Nature Poems, Regional Tour

Poets and Poems: Michelle Menting and “Leaves Surface Like Skin”

By Glynn Young 10 Comments

Red Maple Leaf Michelle Menting

The poems of ‘Leaves Surface Like Skin” by Michelle Menting use the images and metaphors of nature to explore and explain the human condition.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, nature, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry reviews, Poets

The First Poetry for Children: “Divine Emblems” by John Bunyan

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Boy kneeling Divine Emblems

In 1686, the English Puritan minister and writer John Bunyan published what we know today as “Divine Emblems,” the first book of poetry for children.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Childhood Poems, children, nature, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

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