Peace Path by Heid E. Erdrich speaks to the real and metaphorical walk taken by Native Americans over the centuries.
Poetry for Us — October 2025
The poem Mixed-Up School by X.J. Kennedy is from the book Exploding Gravy: Poems to Make You Laugh, 2002
Poetry for Us — September 2025
Joan Baez read her original poem titled “Falling Rocks” in a video. The poem tries “to give a voice to children who are being silenced.”
Poetry for Us — August 2025
This month we’re featuring 2 poems — Kindness to Animals, but an anonymous poet, and Ice Cream Truck by Terri Kirby Erickson
Poetry for Us — Younger than War
This month’s poem, Younger Than War, by Mosab Abu Toha, gives the author’s viewpoint of a September 2020 attack in Palestine.
Poetry for Children — A Child’s Delight
A Child’s Delight by Margaret Wise Brown is from the book Nibble, Nibble. At the edge of the grass; Sat a bug in a glass; Wild.
Poetry for Us — Silence
Silence, a poem by Elizabeth Ehrlich: Silence is an experience everyone should have To sit alone and listen to the sounds to the crickets
Poetry for Us — The Serviceberry
This month’s poetry is an excerpt from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World