Emily Dickinson introduces children to the works of poet Emily Dickinson. Poet, professor, and scholar Susan Snively has carefully chosen 35 poems of interest to children and their families. Each poem is beautifully illustrated by Christine Davenier and thoroughly explained by an expert. The gentle ...
Annie and other kids read great poets from the past. Still,young people want to talk about what is important to them now, she said. They want to standup for what they believe in. They can do it in a poem.Poetry is a very powerful way to s___72___ your mind, she said. Annie...
JC explained that reading obituaries was uplifting, not a ‘down’ experience. “I read them all—for the stories, for what they say about life rather than about death.” She likened the poems to an epilogue or afterword in the way each poem rounds out conclusions she drew from the prose...
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High school teacher Marissa Schimmoeller has explained to her students about her disability, cerebral palsy, before, but last week was the first time she had to address how her limitations would affect them in the case of an active shooter on their school campus.Marissa Schimmoeller ...
So, some weeks went by and the words were still just three words. Till my son asked me whatt heyw ere and I explained that I needed to put all three in a poem. “That’s easy!” he said: “There once was a ghost/Who got some post…” His words trailed off, but my mind st...
and that explained everything. I would watch that shit show Ancient Aliens with my mom and she would say you know in Guate we remember where the Mayas came from, raising her eyebrows into orbit. How could I not grow up to search the skies for meaning? Ancient peoples thought objects so...
for their first frame farmhouse, then the bed, a castiron cookstove with its clatter of pans, plus the barbwire and feedbags, a pump… later, kids and hogs and heifers to the county fair. Lasting out the War to End All Wars, and ...
I explained what the anthology was about, and how it featured all sorts of cool “rainbows” like Vinicunca Mountain and Orion’s Rainbow Nebula. I was quite surprised (although I shouldn’t have been, given their geography) when a couple of students announced they were familiar with rainbow...