For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Since someone pointed out I'd written poems about spring, summer, and fall, I knew I couldn't leave out winter. Zero is the leaves on the tree How do you know it's winter? Animals snack, snooze, skedaddle snowflakes fall Old bear time to sleep wait, rest, pause Footprints in the snow bear snores on Time flies On a snow-melting day snowman - cold = puddle Wake up world! Spring is here Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources Zero Is the Leaves on the Tree by Betsy Franco ..read more

    For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Stichin' and Pullin' a Gee's Bend Quilt Eight hands round growing patterns inch by inch stitch by stitch the seasons sewn Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources Stitchin' and Pullin' A Gee's Bend Quilt by Patricia C. McKissack, illustrations by Cozbi A. Cabrera Eight Hands Round: A Patchwork Alphabet by Ann Whitford Paul, illustrations by Jeanette Winter Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature by Sarah C. Campbell, photographs by Sarah C. Campbell a ..read more

   For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Climb into my lap here’s a little poem you read to me, I’ll read to you books day by day love in the library Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources Climb Into My Lap: First Poems to Read Together, selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, illustrations by Kathryn Brown Here's a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry, collected by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters, illustrations by Polly Dunbar You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together ..read more

For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Count Down to Fall Shrinking days, frosty nights summer green to autumn gold goodbye summer, hello autumn leaf by leaf leaves fall down in November a chill in the air every autumn comes the bear Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources Count Down to Fall by Fran Hawk, illustrations by Sherry Neidigh Shrinking Days, Frosty Nights: Poems About Fall by Laura Purdie Salas Summer Green to Autumn Gold: Uncovering Leaves' Hidden Colors by Mia Posada Goodbye Summer, Hello Aut ..read more

This month the Poetry Sisters' challenge was to dream up an unanswerable question and answer it in a poem. For example, in the poem "How Many How Much," Shel Silverstein asked, "How many slams in an old screen door?"  On our Zoom call Sunday, we spent 5 minutes generating questions on our own, and then we shared them. It gave us a lot of ideas to work with! I tried writing to a couple of different prompts but found that every poem I started wound its way to an answer, which was not the point. Ultimately, I ended up with lots of questions and no answers.  Ode to Wonder How many ticks ..read more

Happy Poetry Friday! For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Up in the garden and down in the dirt a seed is the start When green becomes tomatoes my father’s hands Pick! Pull! Snap! Tops and bottoms first, peas to the table corn rah, rah, radishes fresh, delicious Let’s eat! Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources Up In the Garden and Down In the Dirt by Kate Messner, art by Christopher Silas Neal A Seed Is the Start by Melissa Stewart When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons by Julie Fogliano, pi ..read more

For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. We  wonder the shape of the world gravity spiders and their webs dinosaur bones bubble homes and fish farts how the sea came to be the stunning science of everything Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources We by Alice Schertle, illustrations by Kenneth Addison Wonder by R.J. Palacio The Shape of the World by K.L. Going, illustrated Lauren Stringer Gravity by Jason Chin Spiders and Their Webs by Darlyne A. Murawski Dinosaur Bones by Bob Barner Bubble Homes and Fish ..read more

 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