Other Women's Stories

This week, we’ll do a Christmas poem—a little early. In the wake of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a poem about children at C...

We had our first big snowfall here in Wisconsin. We received at least a foot of the stuff, so I went in search of a nice snow poem. Here ar...

Here’s a charming little poem about a better way to meet people—with an obvious metaphor/lesson: take from those who are ready to give. ...

I’ve been digging up some fabulous poems lately. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. We host Thanksgiving every year, and this was o...

I’m off to check the turkey, peel the potatoes, boil the eggs for my son’s deviled eggs, bring up the card table, set out the serving piece...

For those, like me, who enjoy looking into the seemingly insignificant, who ask why and how come , who pause more often on the tiny spaces...

Here is a somber little poem about the disillusionment of young married women. I believe it was written in the late 1950s, before the sexua...