Tag Archives: Nikki Grimes

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–Golden Shovel, Books, Children

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

My thoughts were and are still with the students and teachers of the Santa Fe, Tx, High School shooting from last week. I let poetry and painting feed the outrage in my heart. I had just received this beautiful book, … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Poem, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, Between the Lines, books, Elizabeth Cotten, environment, Freight Train, friends, golden shovel, Libba, Marching, May, Michelle Kogan, Nikki Grimes, people, poems, poetry, reflections, stories, The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten, Todays Little Ditty, wings | 40 Comments

Poetry Friday-Golden Shovel/Speak Out

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

I’m taken by the high school students continued activism, walk-outs, and marching that are happening here in the U.S. My poems for Poetry Friday this week come from these thoughts. This first poem is from the prompt that Michelle Heidenrich … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, birds, Denise Levertov, fed up with status quo, golden shovel, Linda Baie, Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Michelle Kogan, Nikki Grimes, olive branch, peace, pigeons, stroke another's back, Walt Whitman | 14 Comments

Poetry Friday–Life and Flowers

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I’m in-between and so are the seasons. Winter still is holding on, but signs of green spring are pushing through the softened earth. So I’m sharing an in-between WIP painting, poem about life and flowers, and a … Continue reading →