teach is a verb.
You know how much I value the work of teachers. More than I can say. And so, it is with great pleasure that I have created a VerbTribe class just for K-12 teachers (and Pre-K, too, if you’d like! And homeschoolers and unschoolers are welcomed!). Offered at half the price …
Poets build us nests.
Darwin’s Finches 1 My mother always called it a nest, the multi-colored mass harvested from her six daughters’ brushes, and handed it to one of us after she had shaped it, as we sat in front of the fire drying our hair. She said some birds steal anything, a strand …
poets tell the truth
yes yes yes after a violent rain, bloody battle on the roof mud-inked, wind-broken roots chunked and catastrophic the velocity of the river a cause for posted signs and nervous dogs yes yes o blisters on shoulders from too much sun, mouth woolly, limbs limp as old dandelions yes to …
I finally showed up.
VerbTribe has been an extraordinary journey for me as a teacher, and for those who have joined it. As we close our first 37-day journey into writing, I am featuring writing from VerbTribe members here on 37days. In response to a photograph I provided to the VerbTribe, writer Terry Lynn …
knowing another kind of waiting.
VerbTribe has been an extraordinary journey for me as a teacher, and for those who have joined it. As we close our first 37-day journey into writing, I am featuring writing from VerbTribe members here on 37days. Writer and artist Gwyn Michael offered us this look inside a new kind …
her purse of intentions.
VerbTribe has been an extraordinary journey for me as a teacher, and for those who have joined it. As we close our first 37-day journey into writing, I am featuring writing from VerbTribe members here on 37days. Writer Jill Davis offered us this look inside her purse, and into her. …
Is Sacred a Noun or a Verb?
VerbTribe has been an extraordinary journey for me as a teacher, and for those who have joined it. As we close our first 37-day journey into writing, I am featuring writing from VerbTribe members here on 37days. Writer Padma Ayyagari from Australia offered us this beautiful exploration about what it …
poetry wednesday : it might have been otherwise
I flew home from San Diego on Sunday after two amazing engagements there–a speech to the California Association for the Education of Young Children and a workshop that Jane LaFazio and I created, combining writing and art-making about grief. Full, intense, wonderfully tiring days. Then up early in pouring rain …
in the place with no shoes.
VerbTribe has been an extraordinary journey for me as a teacher, and for those who have joined it. As we close our first 37-day journey into writing, I am featuring writing from VerbTribe members here on 37days. Writer KT Patrick Bothwell offered us this beautiful piece of writing about a …
it is an infinite loop of offering
VerbTribe has been an extraordinary journey for me as a teacher, and for those who have joined it. As we close our first 37-day journey into writing, I am featuring writing from VerbTribe members here on 37days. Writer Ket Parker offered us this beautiful piece of writing about her witness. …
