Michelle’s Card Shop
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Read my poem, "Temptations."
Read my poem, "Mom's Beauty."
Read my poem, "Toady." I also created the cover art.
Read my poem: "Ode to Spring Soil."
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Category Archives: Picture Book
Poetry Friday–Art: Process, Practice, Presentation, Student’s of Michelle Kogan
Happy Poetry Friday! Today I’m Happy to share with you images from my Student’s Exhibit: ART: PROCESS, PRACTICE, PRESENTATION. We had a wonderful opening last Sunday with delectable edibles and conversations! The artwork is from four classes that I teach … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Exhibits, Haiku, Home, Michelle's Art Classes, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Picture Book Sketches, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #AfterDarkBlogTour, #PoetryFriday, Art, Avis Harley, Cheriee Weichel, Children's Picture Book Illustration, Dr. Martin Watercolor, Evanston Art Center, Figure Drawing, Figure Drawing and Painting, Library Matters, Michelle Kogan, Painting, Student's Art Exhibit, teaching, Teaching Art, Thank-yous, Watercolor
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Blog Tour–AFTER DARK: POEMS ABOUT NOCTURNAL ANIMALS by David L. Harrison
Welcome to the 6th blog tour stop for David L. Harrison’s new book: AFTER DARK: POEMS ABOUT NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, And Book Giveaway! Today I’m happy to feature David L. Harrison’s intriguing new Children’s Book, AFTER DARK: POEMS ABOUT NOCTURNAL ANIMALS. … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Picture Book, Writing
Tagged AFTER DARK: POEMS ABOUT NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, Art, Blog Tour, Book Tour, books, butterflies, Children's Books, Children's Illustration, children's writing, David L. Harrison, Michelle Kogan, Moths, nature, Picture Book, poems, poetry, reflections, Stephanie Laberis, Wordsong, Wordsong Imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
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Poetry Friday–For Lee Bennett Hopkins, #DearOneLBH
Happy Poetry Friday! This week for Poetry Friday many of us have written poems for our Dear Poet Pied Piper Lee Bennett Hopkins, who we just lost. We have borrowed lines from his poems and then created a new poem … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged "Jumping Off Library Shelves", "Story", "Storyteller", #DearOneLBH, #NPM, #PoetryFriday, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, books, Children's Poetry, imagination, Jone Rush Macculloch, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Michelle Kogan, Reading
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Register for Michelle Kogan’s Summer Art Classes
Figure study, © 2019 Michelle Kogan, watercolor pencil. Register for one of my Summer Art Classes at the Evanston Art Center, they begin in one week, on June 10, 2019. I’m offering the following classes & workshops. For Registration … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Exhibits, Haiku, Michelle's Art Classes, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Picture Book Sketches, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged Art, books, Children's Picture Book Illustration, environment, Evanston Art Center, Figure Drawing and Painting, Michelle Kogan, Pen and Ink, Pen and Ink and Dr. Martin, Plein Air Painting, Plein Air Workshop, poems, poetry, Poetry and Art, reflections, Summer Art Classes, thoughts
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#NaPoWriMo 2019, Day 20, #foundpoem
Created from Poetry books on display at my Chicago Public Library branch. ANIMAL POEMS Out of wonder the frogs wore red suspenders, swirl by swirl, spirals in nature, jabber walking, feel the beat… © 2019 Michelle Kogan … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Picture Book, Poem, Writing
Tagged #Found Poem, #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, by Kristi Valiant, by Marilyn Singer, Chris Colderly, Ekua Holme, Jack Prelutsky, Joyce Sidman, Juan Felipe Herrera, Kwame Alexander, Marjory Wentworth, Michelle Kogan, Petra Mathers, Poetry Books, Steve Jenkins, Valerie Worth
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