My love affair with poetry began young. So young in fact I don’t actually remember which teacher it was who first read Shel Silverstein’s iconic…
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Book Review: Black Girl, Call Home
– Worth It Readers have a lot of opinions on the resurgence of poetry in this modern age of social media and Instagram poets, but…
The Ordering of Love by Madeleine L’Engle
– It’s Okay Poetry has the ability to transport a reader into the heart of the author, a situation or experience and Madeleine L’Engle in…
February Features – Hannah
*A few reviews and recommendations from my last four weeks of reading. Here we are, a little past mid-February and I have somehow read 25…
January Round Up
As I try to tackle the feat of 100 books in 2020, I thought it might be interesting to try and do a monthly “round…
Poetry Again?
Yep! Poetry again. Here’s the deal, I’m going to keep blogging about poetry until I feel like I have adequately explained the power, potency and…
Poetry, Grief and a Tender Heart
An excerpt from my Silent Retreat Journal 2018 Monday August 6, 2018 “So so many things Beloved (my name for God in personal devotions). During…
Feel What You Are Feeling
It’s what every therapist has ever told me, “Hannah, just feel what you are feeling.” And I won’t lie, after 10 years of on again,…
Poetry Feeds My Soul
Short. Simple. Speaking directly to my soul. I love them. Poetry has a bad rap and I get it…when I went through school I hated…