Tag Archives: Hanukkah

Poetry Friday Roundup is Here & Celebrating Holidaze!

Posted on December 2, 2021 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome to my Holidaze Poetry Friday Roundup! Please add your links for this week’s Poetry Friday Roundup below with Mister Linky. Hanukkah began this week and more winter Holidays are quickly approaching. I’m sharing a poem and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Writing | Tagged #Poetry Friday Roundup, #Poetry Friday Roundup is here!, Art, Christmas, Etsy Shop, Evanston Art Center Winter Arts & Crafts Expo, Hanukkah, Hanukkah 2021, Holiday Cards, Holiday Cheer!, Michelle Kogan, MichelleKoganFineArt.etsy.com, nature, poetry, winter, Winter Holidays | 36 Comments

Poetry Friday–Holiday Lights & “This Photo Wants to be…”

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

hanukkah lights spreadglowing warmth, like familyleaning in for hugs © 2021 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! I’m in with a couple short poems today as I’m busy preparing for a Holiday Show, the Evanston Art Center’s 19th Annual Winter Arts … Continue reading →

Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Exhibits, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing | Tagged #COP26, #PoetryFriday, A(nother) Year of Reading, Hanukkah, Hanukkah 2021, Hanukkah Greeting Cards, International Climate Conference 2021, Margaret Simon, Mary Lee Hahn, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan Fine Art Etsy Shop, Reflections on the teche, This Photo Wants To Be A Poem | 13 Comments

Poetry Friday–Hanukkah

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

HANUKKAH YOU’RE HERE… Hanukkah, your haloing glow creeps up on us each year… Sometimes early, sometimes late sometimes just right. You follow moon’s lunar calendar– But, most of us work-crazed creaturesfollow work-crazed Gregorian calendars. Here you are again early in … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Writing | Tagged #kidlitart, "The Feast of Lights", archival prints, Buffy Silverman, Children, Children's Illustration, Dreidels, Emma LAzarus, Etsy Shop, Freedom, Hanukkah, Hanukkah Boy Card, Hanukkah You're Here", Latke's, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, Oil Lamp Menorah, Painting, Poetry Friday, Rebekah, Rebekah Lowin, Watercolor | 11 Comments

#PoetryFriday–Dad and #Inktober2019

Posted on October 24, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I have a few poems today, the first couple are for #Inktober2019, from this weeks prompts. In my first one I’m continuing our approaching holiday theme with the prompt word from Monday: treasure. TREASURE Find treasure… spinning … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Halloween, Holidays, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #Inktober2019, ancient, Constancy, dad, Dreidels, family, Ghost, gingko tree, Halloween, Hanukkah, Holidays, Judgement, Karen Edmisten, Michelle Kogan, Treasure, Trust | 13 Comments

Poetry Friday–Origin Poem WIP

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I’m sharing my first Origin poem. It came out of a poetry workshop I was at a few weeks ago at the Poetry Foundation, here in Chicago. The workshop was on research and how poets incorporate … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing | Tagged "Origin Poem Story Beginnings", Art, books, earth, family, friends, Grandfather, Hanukkah, Humanity, Liz Steinglass, Michelle Kogan, poems, poetry, Poetry Foundation, reflections, Russia, sun, thoughts, travel, Ukraine, Writing | 11 Comments

A #Haikuforhealing for Hanukkah and all our winter holidays

Posted on December 24, 2016 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Writing | Tagged Bears, Compassion, Freedom, haikuforhealing, Hanukkah, Holidays, love, Michelle Kogan, peace, Pen and Ink, Understanding, Watercolor, winter, Winter Holidays | Leave a comment

Rock’n Round the Hanukkah Table Holiday Contest Story

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Rock’n round the Hanukkah table By Michelle Kogan © 2015 Rock’n round the Hanukkah table with the Holiday lights aglow. Moshe’s mouths munch’n mama’s latkes faster than she can pass ‘em round. Old Uncle Sam’s spinn’n the dreidel, ‘fore … Continue reading →

Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Nature, Painting, Poem, Writing | Tagged 5th Annual Holiday Contest, Art, Children's Illustration, dreidel, Hanukkah, Menorah, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, poem, poetry, Susanna Leonard Hill, Watercolor, Writing | 17 Comments

Happy Hanukkah to all Celebrating!

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Hanukkah For all Celebrating! For more art and poetry, my poem and art are part of Kathy Temean’s Blog post on Hanukkah: http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/20…/…/16/happy-chanukah-2/… Hustle of Hanukkah Hustle of Hanukkah somehow squeezing it in In between holidays falling often mid … Continue reading →

Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Nature, Painting, Poem, Writing | Tagged Art, bluebird, Chanukah, dreidel, Hanukkah, illustration, Kathy Temean, Michelle Kogan, Painting, poem, poetry, Writing and Illustrating | Leave a comment

Holiday Art, Greeting Cards and More…

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Holiday Greetings! My Etsy Shop is filled with Holiday Greeting Cards, Gift Note Cards, Archival Prints and more… to take a peak visit: Michelle Kogan Fine Art And For all my friends in the Chicago area my Holiday Cards and … Continue reading →