Category Archives: Trips

Poetry Friday–Dream Haiku & Holiday Cards

Posted on December 1, 2022 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I have a haiku to share from Margaret Simon’s post this week for This Photo Wants to be a Poem, thanks Margaret for the prompt! You can take a peek at the image by following the link, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Sketchbooks, Trips, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, birds, Catherine Flynn, Christmas, Dreams, Hanukkah, Hawthorn Berries, heart, Holiday Gift Cards, Holidays, Hydrangea, Joy, love, Margaret Simon, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan Fine Art Etsy Shop, Moonbeam, peace, Robin, snow, snowflakes, Snowperson, winter | 11 Comments

Poetry Friday—one little word…

Posted on January 6, 2022 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I’ve been mulling over words for a one little word to select for this year. I’ve selected a word, although on my path I came across this poem thinking about one’s one little word… My word is … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Poem, poetry, Sketchbooks, Trips, Writing | Tagged #OLW, #PoetryFriday, "The Shape of Water", Alexandre Desplat, Art, Beyond Literacy Link, care, Carol Varsalona, centering calm, Feather, golden shovel, magic, Michelle Kogan, nature, one little word, Painting, poem, poems, poetry, reflections, Ruth Bowen Hersey, Watercolor, Writing | 13 Comments

Poetry Friday–Time Traveler Poem

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome time travelers… We are taking a trip into the dictionary and going back in time to 1522, when the word hero first made her appearance. How appropriate heroes’ timing was, with the renaissance under way. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Painting, Poem, poetry, Trips, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, Beatrice de Luna, Conversos, Donna Gracia Nasi, Gracia Mendes Nasi, Hero, Heroine, Inquisition, Jan Annino, Justice, Laura Purdie Salas, Michelle Kogan, Ottoman Empire, peace, poetry, Portugal, Tanita S. Davis, Time Traveler Poem, Truth, Writer | 13 Comments

Poetry Friday–Soaking in Summer’s End…

Posted on September 12, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! My daughter and I took a rendezvous to the Indiana Dunes National Park last Saturday. We lounged by the lake’s edge and then took a hike up the tallest Dune in the area Mount Tom, named … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Trips, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art, earth, environment, family, Flowers, Humanity, Indiana Dunes National Park, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, photography, photos, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, sun, thoughts, Tolleston Beach, towering waves, travel, Watercolor, Writing | 19 Comments

Poetry Friday–Pondering…

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Pondering, © 2019 Michelle Kogan, watercolor pencil, after the sculpture Clytie, by William Henry Rinehart, 1872, Marble, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and my trip there. Happy Poetry Friday! Dani Graham Burtsfield is hosting this weeks Poetry Friday Roundup at her … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Trips, Writing | Tagged Art, books, family, Flowers, Humanity, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michelle Kogan, Morgan Library, Museum at the Eldridge, music, poems, Poetry Friday, Ponder, Pondering, reflections, spirit, stories, travel, Truth, Whitney Biennial 2019, Women, Writing | 14 Comments

Poetry Friday–12 Days of Christmas

Posted on January 10, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday Last week I finished up Julie Hedlund’s 12 days of Christmas Challenge–it started on December 26th and ran through January 6, 2019. It’s a Facebook group that she’s been offering writer’s for the last four years, to … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Trips, Writing | Tagged #haikuforhope, #MoPoetry2019, #PoetryFriday, 12 Days of Christmas, Art, chicago, Garfield Park Conservatory, Haibun, Haiku, Julie Hedlund, Kat Apel, Mary Lee Hahn, Mchelle Kogan, Painting, pen, poems writing, reflections, sketches, Watercolor | 15 Comments

Poetry Friday–Bounty, Dreams, & Painting …

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I’m sharing some art and poems that were inspired by and begun while in Door County, WI. My first poem is a golden shovel that I built from Langston Hughes’ poem Dreams. DREAMS What shall we hold … … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Trips, Writing | Tagged animals, Art, Bounty Dreams Painting, Door County, environment, family, golden shovel, Humanity, lake Michigan, Langston Hughes, Michelle Kogan, nature, photography, photos, poems, poetry, Poetry Friday, reflections, sailboats, seaguls, spirit, sun, thoughts, travel, water, Writing | 31 Comments

Poetry Friday: “BAYOU SONG” Book Review & Roundup

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Today I have an extra special double bill. First, I’m hosting Poetry Friday for the very first time–and you can leave your poetry links with Inlinkz’s friendly frog below. Second, drum roll please … I’m rolling out … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Trips, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, animals, Anna Cantrell, Art, Bayou Song Creative Explorations of the South Louisiana Landscape, Bayou Teche, Book Review, books, earth, environment, Henry Cancienne, Margaret Simon, nature, Philip Gould, photography, poems, poetry, stories, Summer Solstice, UL PRESS, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, Writing | 55 Comments

Poetry Friday Potpourri: Hanukkah & Winter Poetry Swap

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

lights of eight sage branches stretch and reach skyward for freedom! ©2017 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday, and Happy Hanukkah! Last week on Saturday I recieved my winter poetry swap package in the mail. It couldn’t have come at a … Continue reading →