When Michael Salinger and I were teaching in Morocco, we were introduced to a new fashion trend.  Teen girls were wearing the shortest o...

I recently wrote on a friend's Facebook wall, joking about emotional displays in public, that I had thrown up while watching Bon...

War is the Fiercest Art The Luc Bat poet knew His country broke in two, therefore He had to go to war. His wife and child, heart...

  I received this email from a teacher I have corresponded with in Pakistan, who is looking to create the "the longest and most col...

I began by writing poems for my kids, envisioning a single collection for all ages, to be read by families, preferably fireside.   I hav...

If you are looking for age appropriate poetry to share with your students, check out this new anthology ed. by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong...

Oh, hark!   I hear the conversation leading up to the inclusion of William Blake in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Appendix o...

The past three months we have all witnessed the horrible reports of the shooting at nearby Chardon High School, the shooting at the theater...

Here is a back to school poem for all my teacher/principal/student friends.  Or anyone who ever remembers being a student and who maybe, li...

Shifting power in the middle upheaval volume of the crowd’s voice is increasing the seismic movement, changing destruction of auto...

How does Cleveland, OH compare with Dhaka, Bangladesh?  Well, we were only gone a week on this trip, but we came home to bursts of color...

When my mother was a kid, she used to proudly announce whenever her parents drove past her elementary school: "That's my school, m...

In a world where 65 year olds have no wrinkles, where Photoshop magically gives adult women the 18 inch waist Scarlett O’Hara dreamed of, ...

Michael took this picture (okay, I begged and whined a little asking for this angle and that) in the botanical gardens in Singapore.  I w...

  The fall of 2011.   And then . . . Singapore, Beijing, Newark, Mantua, Chicago, D.C.   Because travel is part of the job ...