As a Language Arts & Literature teacher for many years, I presented a poetry unit every year. My students loved the variety that we read and wrote. Many of them wrote beautiful heart-filled words about their changing world and middle school experience.
One of my favorite poetry web site is Academy of American Poets – http://www.poets.org/
You can go there and sign up for a poem-a-day. I love this option–receive meaningful emails that sing with the soft sound of poetry.
Poetry forces me to slow down and see this world in a different light, in a thoughtful glance, and then to shine the light out to the world through my words and thoughts!
Yes, I am a poet above all else!
Published by Larada Horner-Miller
Larada Horner-Miller is a poet, essayist and accomplished multi-genre author who holds a bachelor’s degree in English, with a minor in Spanish and a master of education degree in Integrating Technology into the Classroom. She is the accomplished author of eight award-winning biographies, historical fiction, memoir, and poetry works and three audiobook’s plus three self-published cookbooks.
Her most recent book, Was It a Dream?: Navigating Life’s Journey Through Poetry is a finalist in the Global Book Awards. As is our book released last year, Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir.
Horner-Miller has also been a past national presenter at the Women Writing the West Conference and is currently the creator of Memoir Workshops for others who want to share their family’s legacies through words.
Larada and her husband, Lin, enjoy being nestled in the mountains above Albuquerque, New Mexico, near the village of Tijeras. When not writing books, this passionate, energetic, and enthusiastic woman loves to spend time kicking up her heels at square dancing gatherings, traveling, knitting, and reading.
As co-manager of her family’s southeastern Colorado ranch, she enjoys spending time exploring her family’s historic ranch and reminiscing with her brother and his children about their mom, dad, and granddad.
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