To Make a Prairie Poem
Writing Prompt: Use the Imagist Prairie Poem activity from the Illinois State Museum to write your own prairie poem.
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Free Kindle Edition of Oscar’s Gift, Today and Tomorrow
In preparation for the month-long daily online reading guide for Oscar’s Gift: Planting Words with Oscar Micheaux, the Kindle edition is available for free this weekend, today and tomorrow. Don’t have a Kindle? No problem. You can read it on any of Kindle’s free reading apps. Last week I was fortunate to meet another Oscar …
Blog Remodeling Update
I’ve made the move! Not much furniture yet, though, and I’m still deciding on color schemes and other decor options. The blog remodeling will take a little longer than I had planned—probably another week or two—but the planning sure is a lot of fun, so I don’t mind one bit. Meanwhile, I have a new …
“If I Should Have a Daughter,” Spoken Word Performance by Sarah Kay
900th TED Talk: Sarah Kay’s “If I should have a daughter…” From the TED website: “Plenty of 14-year-old girls write poetry. But few hide under the bar of the famous Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan’s East Village absorbing the talents of New York’s most exciting poets. Sarah Kay also had the guts to take its stage …
May 8, 1945, A Day One Comments On
May 8, 1945: The day began like any other in early / May, the morning sun cast shadows long