Tag Archives: #NPM

Poetry Friday–#PocketPoem & Pablo Neruda Challenge

Posted on April 27, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday & Happy National Poetry Month! I’m sharing my poem from Thursday’s Poem in Your Pocket Day, and my DIY process for it. I folded my poem into a kinda flower to keep it safe in my pocket, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #NPM, #pocketpoem, #Poetry Friday, #poetrypals, Art, earth, environment, Michelle Kogan, National Poetry Month 2023, OPEN SEA, Pablo Neruda, Painting, poem, Poem in your pocket Day, poems, poetry, reflections, Ruth Bowen Hersey, There's no such thing as a God-forsaken town, Watercolor, Writing | 11 Comments

Poetry Friday—Sky Nesting and Thanks!

Posted on April 13, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday, Happy Poetry Month, and Happy Sky Nestings SPRING RITUAL Birds are building nests everywhere… Sparrows, Robins, Cardinals, and high above a pair of Cooper’s Hawkscontemplate their next move… Eh eh commence spring nest building look up into … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing | Tagged #ClimatePoemProject, #EndangeredPollinatorPoem, #NationalPoetryMonth2023, #NPM, #Poetry Friday, birds, Cooper's Hawk, Hawk, Irene Latham, Jone Rush Macculloch, Laura Shovan, Linda Mitchell, Michelle Kogan, nature, poem, poetry, reflections, Spring Nests, Writing | 13 Comments

Poetry Friday–For Lee Bennett Hopkins, #DearOneLBH

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! This week for Poetry Friday many of us have written poems for our Dear Poet Pied Piper Lee Bennett Hopkins, who we just lost. We have borrowed lines from his poems and then created a new poem … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged "Jumping Off Library Shelves", "Story", "Storyteller", #DearOneLBH, #NPM, #PoetryFriday, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, books, Children's Poetry, imagination, Jone Rush Macculloch, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Michelle Kogan, Reading | 15 Comments

#NaPoWriMo Day 30, #watercolor

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

A DAY WITHOUT POETRY Splash of color ripple of chords taste of beauty– Adieu to you Dear poetry month, see you soon, as a day without poetry will never do… © 2019 Michelle Kogan For National Poetry … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, Art, Chorsd, color, Flowers, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, music, Painting, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, spring, thoughts, Watercolor, Writing | Leave a comment

#NaPoWriMo Day 29 #haiku & recycled #WIP due to time shortage…

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

hey mother nature us birds and flowers are here, don’t ya know it’s spring… © 2019 Michelle Kogan For National Poetry Month, I’m writing poems inspired by art that I create or have created. Visit these spots on line to … Continue reading →

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#NaPoWriMo Day 28, #poem and #sketch

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

FROM PENCIL TIPS Little words letter forms crawl out from cobwebs of thoughts, push aside barrage of daily din, collectively form, sometimes orderly, mostly scribbled furiously on lines with a desire to make that leap of faith–allow fingers to furiously … Continue reading →

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#NaPoWriMo Day 22: Happy #EarthDay!

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

earth day seagulls, keow they say, every days earth day! © Michelle Kogan For National Poetry Month, I’m writing poems inspired by art that I create or have created. Visit these spots on line to participate in National Poetry Month: … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing | Tagged #Earth Day 2019, #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, Action, animals, Art, birds, Children, earth, environment, family, Haiku, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, Seagulls, spirit, thoughts, wings, Writing | 1 Comment

#ProgressivePoem 2019–Day 21

Posted on April 21, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Welcome to the 2019 Kidlitosphere Progressive Poem, which started way back when in 2012 by Poet and Writer Irene Latham, on her blog Live Your Poem. This year Matt Forest Esenwine led us off with a new twist. He challenged … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Poem, Writing | Tagged #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, #Progressive Poem 2019, Buffy Silverman, Buffy's Blog, Gene Wilder, Irene Latham, Kidlitosphere, Live Your Poem, Matt Forest Esenwine, Michelle Kogan, Mint Juleps, music, poems, poetry, Ponder, Pure Imagination, Reading to the Core, reflections, stories, The Rascals, thoughts, wings, Writing | 23 Comments

#NaPoWriMo 2019, Day 20, #foundpoem

Posted on April 20, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Created from Poetry books on display at my Chicago Public Library branch. ANIMAL POEMS Out of wonder the frogs wore red suspenders, swirl by swirl, spirals in nature, jabber walking, feel the beat… © 2019 Michelle Kogan … Continue reading →

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#Poetry Friday–#NaPoWriMo & Earth Day

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Purple Onion Plant and Peonies, WIP, © 2019 Michelle Kogan,watercolor and watercolor pencil. Happy Poetry Friday! I like to ponder on about our earth everyday, so I’m beginning my celebration of Earth Day today… Happy Earth Day and National … Continue reading →