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. 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

 For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Looking down the microscope Can you see what I see? A drop of water strange creatures least things ten times better Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources Looking Down by Steve Jenkins The Microscope by Maxine Kumin, pictures by Arnold Lobel Can You See What I See?: On the Road by Walter Wick A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder by Walter Wick Strange Creatures: The Story of Walter Rothschild and His Museum by Lita Judge Least Things: Poems About Small Nature ..read more

Happy Poetry Friday! For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Fireflies at midnight flicker flash light up the night sky magic Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources Fireflies at Midnight by Marilyn Singer, pictures by Ken Robbins  Flicker Flash by Joan Bransfield Graham, illustrations by Nancy Davis Light Up the Night by Jean Reidy, pictures by Margaret Chodos-Irvine Sky Magic, compiled by Lee Bennett Hopkins, illustrations by Mariusz Stawarski I hope you'll come back again to see what new poem I've cobbled ..read more

For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Today's poem is a little different. This is my attempt at using book titles to fashion a "Where I'm From" poem in the style of George Ella Lyons. You will see it is created in a series of book stack stanzas, using the same title to begin each one. I hope you learn a little about me, as this is an autobiographical poem.  I'm from Children of the Great Depression the button box the hard-times jar earn it save it waiting is not easy I'm from chalk kitchen science handsprings summersaults mes ..read more

For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. In the middle of the night a crack in the clouds one big rain tap dancing on the roof Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources In the Middle of the Night: Poems from a Wide-Awake House by Laura Purdie Salas, illustrations by Angela Matteson A Crack In the Clouds and Other Poems by Constance Levy, illustrations by Robin Bell Corfield One Big Rain: Poems for Rainy Days compiled by Rita Gray, illustrations by Bryan O'Rourke Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems) by ..read more

For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. All the world Is ... was ... oodles of animals green on green All different now where once there was a wood hard hat area To change a planet THINK BIG Handle with care Let it begin here Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon, illustrations by Marla Frazee Is  was by Deborah Freedman Oodles of Animals by Lois Ehlert Green on Green by Dianne White, illustrations by Felicita Sala All Different Now: Juneteenth, the Fi ..read more

For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Near one cattail frogs sing songs Hidden in the grass a nest full of eggs A celebration of bees flip, float, fly Red sings from treetops and then it’s spring Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources Near One Cattail: Turtles, Logs, and Leaping Frogs by Anthony D. Fredericks, illustrations by Jennifer DiRabbio Frogs Sing Songs by Yvonne Winer, illustrations by Tony Oliver Hidden in the Grass by Barbara Taylor A Nest Full of Eggs by Priscilla Belz Jenkins, i ..read more

For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. Hidden underground seeds listen to the wind twist jump at the sun planting the wild garden Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources Hidden by Loic Dauvillier, illustrations by Marc Lizano, ink by Greg Salsedo Underground by Shane Evans Seeds by Ken Robbins Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Gred & Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth, collages by Susan L. Roth Twist: Yoga Poems by Janet S. Wong, artwork by Julie Paschkis Jump at ..read more

For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems. How To Be a Butterfly Step gently out flutter and hum you can fly! Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved. Sources How To Be a Butterfly by Laura Knowles, pictures by Catell Ronca Step Gently Out by Helen Frost, illustrations by Rick Lieder Flutter & Hum: Animal Poems = Aleteo y zumbido: Poemas de Animales by Julis Paschkis You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrations by Jeffery Boston Weatherford I hope you'll come back agai ..read more