Michelle’s Card Shop
Click the Karner Blue Butterfly to visit my Etsy Shop.
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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Poetry Friday—Poetry & More…
Happy Poetry Friday and Happy Women’s History Month! In honor of Women’s History Month, I’m sharing a golden shovel poem built from Margarita Engle’s prose piece, The Care and Feeding of Poetry, that’s featured in this months Poetry Foundation’s, Poetry … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #Poetry, #PoetryFriday, #Spring Sprouts, #Women's History Month, buds, Bunnies, Easter Cards, eggs, Flowers, gardens, Kathryn Apel, Margarita Engle, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, Passover Cards, Poetry Foundation, Poetry Magazine, Pollinate, spring, Tulips
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Poetry Friday–Inaugural Poems 2021
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m moving forward slowly with hope, for our country, America, and our world. I was smitten with our Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem, THE HILL WE CLIMB. My post today includes a golden shovel poem … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #Amanda Gorman, #PoetryFriday, "Dove's-wings", America, care, change, Compassion, Democracy, Golden Shovel Poem, Hope, Inaugural Poem 2021, inclusive, Justice, Laura Shovan, love, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, Valentine's Day cards 2021, valentines day
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Poetry Friday–Hanukkah
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
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Last Minute Holiday Gifts and Cards…
Happy Holidays! These bookmarks along with cards, archival … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged animals, Art, Bookmarks, books, Bunnies, earth, environment, Etsy Shop, Evanston Art Center 2019 Winter Arts & Crafts EXPO, family, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, peace, poems, poetry, Polar Bears, Ponder, Protesting, reflections, Solstice, thoughts, Truth, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Winter Poem Swap & #natember December Nature
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m very happy this week to share Joyce Ray’s treasure-filled Winter Poem Swap. In our poems and gifts to each other, ours thoughts both seemed to draw from historical spiritual, and social justice callings. The little poem books, … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #haikuforjustice, #haikuforkindness, #hakuforhope, #natember, #PoetryFriday, #WinterPoemSwap, Art, books, Emily Dickinson, environment, Holidays, Joyce Ray, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, photos, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, Tabatha Yeatts
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Poetry Friday–Lobelia and Fall…
Happy Poetry Friday! I had a week off in between my summer and fall classes that I teach, and tried to fit in a little bit of painting… My hearts still in summer but the leaves that are falling … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Michelle's Art Classes, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, autumn, bees, Etsy Shop, fall, Flowers, Janet Wong, Lobelia, Mary Oliver, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, Poetry for Children, purple, Sylvia Vardell, Traci Sorell
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#Poetry Friday–”I am the sound of…” & Summer Greeting Cards
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m sharing a poem that I created from a clunker line that Linda Mitchell made available at her blog A Word Edgewise, on her Poetry Friday Post last week. Many thanks Linda–I’ve had a busy week and … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art, Birthday Cards, Buffy Silverman, Clunker Poems, earth, environment, Etsy Shop, Fireflies, fish, Flowers, friends, Linda Mitchell, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, Ponder, reflections, summer, Summer Cards, sun, thoughts
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