Tag Archives: Tanita S. Davis

Poetry Friday—Hang’n out with Pygmy Sloths & Change…

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

HANG’N OUT WITH CHANGE… If we could be slow as sloths in mangrove trees, could we start thinking about you and we, and bring change for everybody… © 2021 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! I’m all in with this friendly … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Poem, poetry, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #Poetry Friday, #poetrypals, "I Know" Poems, artist, care, change, Compassion, Critically Endangered, Elisabeth Norton, Jane Yolen, Laura Purdie Salas, Mary Lee Hahn, Michelle Kogan, Painting, poem, poetry, Pygmy Three-Toed Sloths, Tanita S. Davis, Watercolor | 18 Comments

Poetry Friday – Summer Poem Swap & Villanelle Prompt

Posted on July 29, 2021 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Today I’m happy to share my Gorgeous Summer Poetry Swap art and poem written and painted by Iphigene Daradar in the Philippines. I received my poetry swap from Iphigene last week via email, and serendipitously I sent … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, #Summer Poetry Swap 2021, #Villanelle, "Free As A Bird" The Beetles, Acrylic, Art, birds, Children, Clark's Nutcracker, haiku, Laura Purdie Salas, Learning, Mary Iphigene Daradar, Memory, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, Rebecca Herzog, Tabatha Yeatts, Tanita S. Davis, Tree Roots, trees | 12 Comments

Poetry Friday— Zentangle Poem and Art

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I decided to take the plunge and try a zentangle poem, which was the poem prompt from the Poetry Sisters this month, thanks for this challenging and new to me prompt! What exactly is it… It’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Writing | Tagged #Poetry Friday, #poetrypals, A Word Edgewise, Art, artist, Backyard art, Kat Apel, Laura Purdie Salas, Linda Mitchell, Michelle Kogan, Plein Air, poetry, Poetry Sisters, Tanita S. Davis, Watercolor, Watercolor Exhibit, Watercolor USA 2021, Writing, Zentangle | 18 Comments

Poetry Friday–Progressive Poem & Poem in the style of Linda Hogan

Posted on April 29, 2021 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday and Welcome to the last stop for the Progressive Poem 2021 Our Progressive Poem began with author/poet Irene Latham and as of last year, the poem baton has been passed on to Margaret Simon at her blog … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Picture Book Sketches, Poem, poetry, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #Poetry Friday, #poetrypals, #Progressive Poem 2021, #seeds, #Spring, #Spring Sprouts, Christie Wyman, Irene Latham, Kathryn Apel, LInda Hogan, Margaret Simon, Matt Forest Esenwine, Michelle Kogan, Tanita S. Davis | 26 Comments

Poetry Friday–Dizain Poem & Environmental Callings

Posted on March 25, 2021 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday I’ve taken up the Poetry Sisters March challenge of writing a dizain poem for closing out the month of March. Look for more dizain poems with the hashtag #PoetryPals. DIZAIN FOR SPRING Spring springs discombobulating senses. Teasing … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Poetry Books, Writing | Tagged #Poetry Friday, #poetrypals, "DIZAIN FOR SPRING", "Earths's wild Music", Art, artists, Cortorra Volando and Flowers, Dizain, endangered birds, endangered species, environment, Jane Hirshfield, Kathleen Dean Moore, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan Fine Art Etsy Shop, music, poems, Rachelle McCabe, Soul Blossom Living, spring, Susan Bruck, Tanita S. Davis, Watercolor Painting | 7 Comments

Poetry Friday–Metaphor

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! For my post this week I took on the prompt that the Poetry Sisters offered,–including Laura Purdie Salas, Tanita Davis and more… To write a poem using metaphor from either the game with Metaphor Dice, or to … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Pencil Drawing, Poem, poetry, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, #poetrypals, "Courage is a garden", Courage, garden, Karen Edmisten, Laura Purdie Salas, Metaphor, Metaphor Dice, Metaphor generator, Music as Metaphor, poem, poetry, Tanita S. Davis, The Blog With the Shockingly Clever Title, Wynton Marsalis | 15 Comments

Poetry Friday–Time Traveler Poem

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome time travelers… We are taking a trip into the dictionary and going back in time to 1522, when the word hero first made her appearance. How appropriate heroes’ timing was, with the renaissance under way. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Painting, Poem, poetry, Trips, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, Beatrice de Luna, Conversos, Donna Gracia Nasi, Gracia Mendes Nasi, Hero, Heroine, Inquisition, Jan Annino, Justice, Laura Purdie Salas, Michelle Kogan, Ottoman Empire, peace, poetry, Portugal, Tanita S. Davis, Time Traveler Poem, Truth, Writer | 13 Comments

Poetry Friday–Naani’s, blueness, & Halloween…

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Oh ya, this week some of us … Continue reading →

Posted in Cards, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing | Tagged #Poetry Friday, Altruism, artist, change, Democracy, Desafinado, Evalyn Callahan Shaw, fall, Linda Baie, Michelle Kogan, Naani, Norah Jones, November, Painting, Pen and Ink, poems, poetry, Tanita S. Davis, Vote Blue, Watercolor, Writer | 14 Comments

Poetry Friday–RBG

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday!(typed with a slight sigh, from this last week…) What a week… This week for Poetry Friday there were two prompt suggestions. One came a while back from Tanita Davis one of the Poetry Sisters/Princesses. The prompt was … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, #RBG, #Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gender equality, haiku, Jone Rush Macculloch, Justice, Michelle Kogan, MY POSTAL LADY, poem, poetry, Poets, Silver Birch Press, Tanita S. Davis | 19 Comments

Poetry Friday: Hindsight Prompt & Fall Online Art Classes

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

Happy Poetry Friday! Heidi Mordhorst, poet, teacher, and activist extraordinaire is hosting this weeks Poetry Friday roundup at her blog my juicy little universe, thanks for hosting Heidi! Be sure to stop by for lots more poetry… This week we … Continue reading →