Category Archives: poetry

BOOK REVIEW: All the Wild Wonders: Poems of our Earth

Posted on April 29, 2015 by darwinsbulldog

Earth Day was a little over one week ago. At some point on that day, I sat down with my toddler daughter and read to her some poems from the new book* All the Wild Wonders: Poems of our Earth, edited … Continue reading →

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BOOK REVIEW: A Stick Is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play

Posted on November 24, 2012 by darwinsbulldog

A Stick Is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play (New York: Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012, 32 pp., $16.99) This small collection of poems by veteran children’s author Marilyn Singer, to say the least, is an excellent thing. See: … Continue reading →

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Monday thought of the week: the song of nature

Posted on February 7, 2011 by darwinsbulldog

A thought: ALL DAY LONG Beneath the pine tree where I sat to hear what I was looking at, then by the sounding shore to find some things the tide had left behind, I thought about the hilltop blown upon … Continue reading →