WEST SAND LAKE — Betty Murphy's West Sand Lake Elementary first-grade class stood in a row before their schoolmates Thursday afternoon, ready to recite by memory the 32-line poem they wrote. Murphy ...
Joyce Kilmer wrote one of the most famous%2C most beloved%2C most parodied poems His ode to trees is known by almost everyone%2C critic said But rote memorization of poetry is on the way out in ...
Climbed any good trees lately? It had been a while since I'd sampled the freedom and the thrill of the high branches. Then, at a Huntsville Literary Association Sunday Salon last spring, I heard Carey ...
A droll story from a sleepy classroom reflects on what can be see from behind closed eyes No-one saw it but me and I had my eyes shut: I’d given the class their Thomas Hardy worksheets, the bell had ...
Ruth “Uncle Ruthie” Buell, who lives in L.A.’s Pico-Robertson neighborhood, had a thought one day. Actually, the thoughts are always bubbling over with her, but this one was particularly inspired. Why ...
We’ve featured several other poems by Bruce Guernsey, who lives in Illinois and Maine. But here he is visiting Gettysburg and giving us a poem for Memorial Day. “Naming the Trees” is forthcoming in ...
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