Tag Archives: Michelle Heidenrich Barnes

Poetry Friday–Celebrating Nikki Grimes!

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I’m happy to be part of the Poetry Friday celebration of awarding winning author, poet, and artist Nikki Grimes! I’ve read a handful of Nikki’s 75 + books and have many more waiting for me. What comes … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Picture Book, Plein Air Art, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, Action, Art, Between the Lines, books, Celebration, change, Children, Covid19, Dreams, family, friends, Humanity, Irene Latham, life, Live Your Poem, Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Michelle Kogan, Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards A Memoir, poems, Poets, Ponder, Reading, Recovery, reflections, roses, Southwest Sunrise, Sree Sreenivasan, stories, Students, Systemic Racism, Thanks, thoughts, Todays Little Ditty, Truth, video, Waiting, watercolors, wings, Women, Writing | 12 Comments

Poetry Friday: Mother’s Day

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

geraniums gently wave yellow sunshine big bee buzzes by… © 2020 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! I’m celebrating Mother’s Day! MOM’S Mom’s presence never stops Juggling 100 different tasks Working Mothering Sistering Loving Fathering Caring Sharing Refereeing Picker-upper … Continue reading →

Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #PoemsofPresence, #PoetryFriday, Annie Finch, bees, Fanny mendelssohn, Geraniums, Margaret Rockwell Finch, Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Michelle Kogan, mother's day, Zukerman Trio Plays Mendelssohn | 12 Comments

Poetry Friday–May: THESE BRAVE HANDS

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday and Happy May! I’m sharing a poem that’s very new, and that I worked on over the last day or two. It’s a prompt that Michelle Heidenrich Barnes gave us at her blog, Today’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, Picture Book, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged "These Brave Hands", Action, Art, Children, classes, Dreams, earth, Elizabeth Steinglass, environment, family, friends, Humanity, Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan #Poetry Friday, nature, Patrice Vecchione, poems, poetry, Ponder, Reading, reflections, stories, The Supremes "Up The Ladder To The Roof", thoughts, Truth, Waiting, Women, Writing | 16 Comments

#Poetry Friday–Roundup is Here & Spring

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Come on in, the Poetry Friday Roundup is here, leave your poetry links below with Mister Linky. I’ve invited Spring for a brief escape from all the scariness out there… So, kick back and bathe yourself in … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, Action, Art, bird songs, books, buds, Diane Mayr, earth, environment, family, Flowers, gardens, Humanity, Margaret Simon, Mary Lee Hahn, May, Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Michelle Kogan, music, nature, Peony, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, spirit, spring, the best of Today's Little Ditty 2017-2018, Todays Little Ditty, Waiting, Writing | 38 Comments

Poetry Friday–Leap Year…

Posted on February 27, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I’m not one to sidestep bad news, however there’s so much out there I’m taking a break and offering a light post on our one in every four year occurrence of Leap Year… My Leap Year poem … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Nature, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, animals, books, Buffy Silverman, bullfrogs, earth, environment, family, Humanity, jumping, Karen Edmisten, Leap Year, leaping, Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Michelle Kogan, Mother Goose, poems, poetry, Ponder, Rabbit-stirring, reflections, spirit, Thanks, Truth, Whiskers-whisking, Writing | 27 Comments

Poetry Friday–Giving Thanks

Posted on November 28, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I was very happy this week when I received my very own copy of the best of Today’s Little Ditty 2017-2018, compiled lovingly by Michelle Heidenrich Barnes. The spot-on cover and inside art were created by Michelle’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, #thanku, Bridget Magee, Diane Mayr, gardens, Giving Thanks, Haiku, Hope, Kathryn Apel, Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Michelle Kogan, Point of View, Thanksgiving, the best of Today's Little Ditty 2017-2018 | 17 Comments

#PoetryFriday–Voices for Climate & Justice

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! This has been quite a week between the frigid cold we’ve had here in Chicago, and the beginning of the Impeachment hearings… I found a post by artist/Illustrator Emma Reynolds, whose from across the pond, calling for … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Picture Book Sketches, Poem, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, 1968 Tale of School Turmoil, Action, animals, Art, books, classes, earth, Emma Reynolds, environment, friends, Humanity, Joy Harjo, Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Michelle Kogan, people, poems, poetry, Ponder, Protests, reflections, spirit, stories, Students, sun, teaching, thoughts, Todays Little Ditty, Truth, Waiting, Women, Writing | 11 Comments

Poetry Friday–Summer Poem Swap & Thanks

Posted on August 29, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Tabatha Yeatts created a “glowing” acrostic poem-bookmark for me for the Summer Poetry Swap, thanks so much Tabatha, and thanks for organizing the swap again this summer too, xo! She used some of my art as the … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Picture Book, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, #Summer Poetry Swap, Acrostic poems, Bookmarks, Giving Thanks, golden shovel, Jesse Anna Bornemann, Kat Whiskers, Kathryn Apel, Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Michelle Kogan, Paul MacCartney, Tabatha Yeatts, Tune poem | 23 Comments

Poetry Friday–Heavy Heart

Posted on August 9, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

My gosh what a week… My head has been in a whirl from the two mass shootings of last week in Ohio and Texas–My heart heavy, and frustration for change constant. Then we all heard of the passing of Toni … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Poem, Writing | Tagged Action, Children, family, Flowers, friends, Halo, Heavy Heart, Humanity, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Michelle Kogan, Molly Hogan, nature, Nix the comfort zone, people, poems, poetry, Poetry Friday, spirit, stories, Students, Waiting, wings, Women, Writing | 14 Comments

Poetry Friday–Mother’s Day– Poems from “The Best of Today’s Little Ditty 2016”

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday and Happy Mother’s Day. I have the pleasure today of featuring a rich and varied collection of poems from Michelle Heidenrich Barnes’ The Best of Today’s Little Ditty 2016, Poems for Our Mothers. This is Michelle’s second poetry … Continue reading →