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Category Archives: Poetry Books
Poetry Friday–NPM Gray Catbird
Happy NPM and Poetry Friday! Have you been following the Progressive Poem, originally started by Irene Latham, and hosted now by Margaret Simon. Each day throughout April a poet is adding their own unique line, or borrowed line to a group … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Poem, poetry, Poetry Books, Writing
Tagged #NPM2022, Gray Catbird, Imperfect II, Irene Latham, Jama Rattigan, Jama's Alphabet Soup, Margaret Simon, Matt Forrest Esenwine, Michelle Kogan, Poetry Friday, Progressive Poem, Tabatha Yeatts
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Poetry Friday–NPM–Meadowlark
Happy Poetry Friday! Happy Poetry Month! There are S-o-o-o-o many poetry opportunities to partake in, I wish I could skip sleeping this month and fill up on more of the poetry out there. Here’s a couple of places to wet … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Poem, poetry, Poetry Books, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #National Poetry Month, #NPM 2022, #PoetryFriday, #Progressive Poem 2022, Art, birds, Eastern Meadow Lark, Imperfect II, Jama Rattigan, Jama's Alphabet Soup, Janice Scully, Margaret Simon, Mary Lee Hahn Rose Cappelli, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, poetry, reflections, Tabatha Yeatts, This Photo Wants to Be, Ukraine, Writing
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Poetry Friday–National Poetry Month & Whooping Cranes
Happy Poetry Friday & National Poetry Month! For National Poetry Month I’m continuing to work on a bird poetry book I started recently, and will share some of these poems. I’m hoping to share some art along with some of … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, poetry, Poetry Books, Writing
Tagged #National Poetry Month 2022, #PoetryFriday, "An Amazing Bird-Man Tale", Academy of National Poets, At the Pond, Bird Poetry Book, birds, David Elliott, Democracy, George Archibald, Heidi Mordhorst, International Crane Foundation, Jama Rattigan, Jama's Alphabet Soup, Michelle Kogan, nature, poem, poems, reflections, Right to Exist, Ukraine, Whooping Crane Dance, Whooping Cranes, World Democracy, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Ukraine & Spring Cards
Happy Poetry Friday! As many others I have also had Ukraine and the Ukrainian people on my mind this last week. This unfounded War is an attack on Democracy everywhere. I wanted to help in some way and researched various … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Poem, poetry, Poetry Books, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #Poetry Friday, Art, Compassion, Donate Ukraine, Easter Greeting Cards, Etsy, Etsy Shop, Help Ukraine, Kathryn Apel, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan Fine Art Etsy Shop, nature, Painting, Passover Greeting Cards, poem, poems, poetry, reflections, save democracy, Ukraine, War Poems, Watercolor, Writing
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Poetry Friday—Poem Swap—Whimsy & Water…
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m happy to share with you my joy filled poetry swap package that I received fromMargaret Simon! Margaret sent me a collaged writing journal infused with summeryness! Margaret’s poem borrowed words from a recent poem of mine … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Poem, poetry, Poetry Books, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #Alstroemeria, #Hummingbird wings, #Nature, #Naturelover, #painting, #PoetryFriday, #Summer Poetry Swap, #watercolor, #WIlly-nilly, Chicago's plummeting and rising water crisis, dragonfly, Margaret Simon, Michelle Kogan, Reflections on the teche, Tabatha Yeatts, Tabatha Yeatts: The Opposite of Indifference, Water and Climate Crisis
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Poetry Friday–Robins for Earth Day 2021
robin dreams of catalpa canopies, summer’s secret solace © 2021 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! I’m celebrating Earth Day with thoughts about how we can help our friend Robin. The counts of Robins are down in the cities, mainly due … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Poem, poetry, Poetry Books, Writing
Tagged #Earth Day 2021, #NPM2021, #PoetryFriday, #Progressive Poem 2019, American Robin, birds, Catherine Flynn, City Birds, Margaret Simon, Michelle Kogan, Protecting Robin's, Reflections on the teche, Soul Blossom Living, Susan Bruck
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Poetry Friday–Dizain Poem & Environmental Callings
Happy Poetry Friday I’ve taken up the Poetry Sisters March challenge of writing a dizain poem for closing out the month of March. Look for more dizain poems with the hashtag #PoetryPals. DIZAIN FOR SPRING Spring springs discombobulating senses. Teasing … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Poetry Books, Writing
Tagged #Poetry Friday, #poetrypals, "DIZAIN FOR SPRING", "Earths's wild Music", Art, artists, Cortorra Volando and Flowers, Dizain, endangered birds, endangered species, environment, Jane Hirshfield, Kathleen Dean Moore, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan Fine Art Etsy Shop, music, poems, Rachelle McCabe, Soul Blossom Living, spring, Susan Bruck, Tanita S. Davis, Watercolor Painting
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Poetry Friday–Beauty
Happy Poetry Friday My poem this week, a haiku within my WIP drawing came from a contrapuntal poem I am working on. Both of these poems are about Beauty, and about being/taking in time, allowing ourself time, and connections with … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, Poem, poetry, Poetry Books, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, "Converse with Beauty", "Crystal Flowers: Poems and a Libretto", "time's presence", Children's Picture Book Illustration, Evanston Art Center, Figure Drawing and Painting, Florine Stettheimer, Harper College Community Education, Heidi Mordhorst, Michelle Kogan, Painting, Pen & Ink & Watercolor, poems, poetry, Spring Art Classes 2021, Watercolor, Women's History Month
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Poetry Friday-“Creative Brain”
Happy Poetry Friday! I’ve been participating in Laura Shovan’s 9th Annual February Poetry Project, where we write a poem a day during February. This year our poem prompt focus is the body. My Poem-Drawing here is from a prompt this … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Poem, poetry, Poetry Books, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, "Creative Brain", Art, Getty Museum, ideas, Laura Shovan, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, pencil sketch, Persistant, Poem-Drawing, poems, Poet-Artists, poetry, Polymath, Rebecca Brock, Ruth Bowen Hersey, William Blake
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