For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Ten flashing fireflies light up the night counting the stars dark on light Small wonders flip, float, fly a sky full of poems signals in the sky Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources Ten Flashing Fireflies by Philemon Sturges, illustrations by Anna Vojtech Light Up the Night by Jean Reidy, illustrations by Margaret Chodos-Irvine Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician by Lesa Cline-Ransome, illustrations by Raúl Colón Dark on Light ..read more

 For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Firefly July Marshmallow clouds enchanted air Yellow umbrella one white sail Ice cream summer lemonade sun Summer beat see me run! Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems, selected by Paul B. Janeczko, illustrated by Melissa Sweet Marshmallow Clouds: Two Poets at Play Among Figures of Speech by Ted Kooser and Connie Wanek, illustrations by Richard Jones Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engl ..read more

For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. A Writing Kind of Day When rain falls Splish! Splash! The sky stirs up trouble Tap, tap! Boom, boom! When thunder comes Flash! Crash! Rumble and Roll! This is the rain Drip! Drop! What’s the weather inside? Cloudy, with a chance of meatballs. Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources A Writing Kind of Day: Poems For Young Poets by Ralph Fletcher, illustrations by April Ward When Rain Falls by Melissa Stewart, illustrations by Constance Rummel Bergum S ..read more

Have you been following the progressive poem progress? I hope so! I'm happy to be number 20 in line for this growing tale. My couplet is at the boom and in bold. cradled in stars, our planet sleeps, clinging to tender dreams of peace sister moon watches from afar, singing lunar lullabies of hope. almost dawn, I walk with others, keeping close, my little brother. hand in hand, we carry courage escaping closer to the border My feet are lightning; My heart is thunder. Our pace draws us closer to a new land of wonder. I bristle against rough brush— poppies ahead brighten the browns. Morning ..read more

Happy Poetry Friday! For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. This is just to say poetry matters Today and today just people and paper, pen, poem tiny dreams sprouting tall Wonderful words falling down the page A lucky thing Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources This is Just to Say by Joyce Sidman, illustrations by Pamela Zagarenski Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem From the Inside Out by Ralph Fletcher  Today and Today, haiku by Issa, pictures by G. Brian Karas Just People and Other Poems for Young ..read more

For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Subway sparrow city hawk honk, honk, goose bird talk Chatter, sing, roar, buzz song of the wild where I live  Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources Subway Sparrow by Leyla Torres City Hawk: The Story of Pale Male by Meghan McCarthy Honk, Honk, Goose!: Canada Geese Start a Family by April Pulley Sayre, illustrations by Huy Voun Lee Bird Talk: What Birds Are Saying and Why by Lita Judge Chatter, Sing, Roar, Buzz: Poems About the Rain Forest by ..read more

For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. I’m trying to love math Marvelous math   the numbers    millions, billions, and trillions     this plus that Mesmerizing math   when a line bends, a shape begins    shapes, shapes, shapes     seeing symmetry Mystery math   How many?    Why Pi?     Which one doesn’t belong? Grasping mysteries in the moment learning to love math Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources I'm Trying to Love Math by Beth ..read more

For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. The year comes round a new school year Let's go! The song shoots out of my mouth O Frabjous day! Hello school! Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources The Year Comes Round: Haiku through the Seasons by Sid Farrar, illustrations by Ilse Plume A New School Year: Stories in Six Voices by Sally Derby, illustrations by Mika Song Let's Go!: The Story of Getting from There to Here by Lizann Flatt, illustrations by Scot Ritchie  The Song Shoots Out of My Mouth by Jaim ..read more

 For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Leaf by leaf swirl by swirl down ... down ... down Wonder fall Roots and blues Forest has a song Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources Leaf by Leaf: Autumn Poems selected by Barbara Rogasky, photographs by Marc Tauss Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature by Joyce Sidman, pictures by Beth Krommes Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea by Steve Jenkins Wonderfall by Michael Hall Roots and Blues: A Celebration by Arnold Adoff, pain ..read more

For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Sky scrape, city scape come with me A city is home to me New York Hello, hello! Here I am  home, sweet home Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources Sky Scrape/City Scape: Poems of City Life by Jane Yolen, illustrations by Ken Condon  Come With Me: Poems For a Journey by Naomi Shihab Nye, images by Dan Yaccarino A City Is by Norman Rosten, illustrations by Melanie Hope Greenberg Home to Me: Poems Across America, selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, illustrations by Step ..read more