Archive for 2010
Good-bye to national poetry month, but not good-bye to poetry!
April 30, 2010
A favorite poem from my childhood—and it continues to conjure up wonderful feelings of swinging higher and higher! The Swing, by Robert Louis Stevenson How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up in […]
“A little bit of poetry is a vitamin for the spirit.”
April 26, 2010
April and National Poetry Month are almost over but a little bit of poetry every day is a good habit to cultivate, so in the next couple of days, let’s indulge and cultivate the habit. To start the habit off right, let me offer a few “personal rules” that help make poetry the pleasure it should […]
What does the volcano eruption in Iceland, which has disrupted plane travel, have to do with National TV turn off week?
April 20, 2010
I just read an article, “Escape from the Jet Age” about the consequences to the airline industry from the volcano eruption in Iceland. This particular writer, rather than being irritated by the disrupted itineraries and lost productivity was wishing the “jet-free” interlude could have continued a bit longer. http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/opinion/20sethstevenson.html I have always believed that reading […]
A favorite poem by Ben Feinstein (7th grade)
April 13, 2010
If I were A color, I’d be white. Not a blank White, which is Empty and plain But a ready white. Ready to be Filled with imaginative Ideas, both colorful And creative. I would not be White for long though, For I’d be the color of many. I’d be filled with Sky blues, rosy reds, […]
Welcome to April—National Poetry Month.
April 9, 2010
April is National Poetry Month —a perfect opportunity to share some of my favorite poems and thoughts about poetry in general. The perfect place to begin is a poem by Karla Kuskin. I need to read. It’s a little like breathing or eating or drinking My life’s link to thinking. Without it I am much […]
