Four days of learning and fun in rural Wisconsin. No cheesy jokes about WI needed, it was just plain fun. Did some workshops, danced my fe...

THIS is why I am always on a diet. People treat me too well. Who knew that Minneapolis has such good Italian food? Who could say no? Not...

The heat is everywhere this week. In the sock drawer, the cabinet in the bathroom, seeping out from under the fridge and toasting my toes. ...

It's almost trite for a poet to have a garden, the seed being the original metaphor and all. I don't grow anything practical. I us...

Tshirts say: We put the fun back in Dysfunctional 

The problem with letting a blog go into a holding pattern for a while is that life doesn't have a hold button and so many astonishing th...

Perry, Georgia is about a 1.5 hour drive south from Atlanta. I've been to Perry before to visit schools and love the quaint downtown ar...

After the sixth grade assembly a boy came up to me and asked, "Why do poets always write about love? Never did ME any good." ...

It is rare that I visit a school and get to come home for lunch, but Memorial is right down the road from my house. I had a great time with ...

I drove home from a great visit to Perseus in Erie, PA today only to sit down to watch another expose about yet another teacher engaged in ...

Ajax (the special needs dog) is eating a pencil under my desk. I'm dressed for the gym but stalled here at the computer. I read the ne...

Let's say some school district, a big district, is putting together scripted lesson plans for the third grade, a program that is destine...

Goshen is in prairie country, flat and windswept. Tuesday morning dawned clear and cold -- extra cold. The reception at school however was...

Poem the poem -- Parkside teacher Matt Cooper had his fifth graders rewrite some of my poems, to "poem the poem," as he describes ...

Universal peace signs and lots of smiles. 

In China, rules are in place that require a visa to move from one province (like a state) to another. If a family moves without this visa t...

Children at the Chinese Migrant School recite poetry by heart. Then I taught them a poem in English -- my shortest poem. Everyone laughed ...

Jammers from Puxi perform a poem for four voices. Missing in the student poetry are poems about street crime (as so many are in the USA). ...

You wouldn't believe this campus. It is like a luxury community college state side. The staff and kids are all very dedicated to learn...

Poetry Jammers from the International School at Tianjin. After they finished performing my poetry, I asked them if they knew what the next...