Today feels like a good day for a poem. I wrote “Balanced Rock, Big Bend National Park” after my first trip to Big Bend in March of 2011. In November of 2013, I was visiting the park for the second time when I received word that my poem had won first place in the Poetry Society of Texas‘Continue reading “Balanced Rock, Big Bend National Park”
Category Archives: Poetry
Pumpkins and Poetry
Today I’d like to share two little October-themed poems with you. “Harvest Moon” is my very first published poem. It appeared in the 2009 Texas Poetry Calendar, and was published under my maiden name, Carie Kinder. I wrote this poem in my head as I drove home from work one October night, the full moonContinue reading “Pumpkins and Poetry”
My First Guest Speaking Appearance (And a Few Hilarious Misspellings)
This past Friday, I drove up to the Harmony Science Academy of North Austin to be a guest speaker in an eighth grade poetry class, and it was a blast. I’d never been a guest speaker before. I’d hosted guest speakers in my own classroom and been to see plenty of them at bookstores and libraries,Continue reading “My First Guest Speaking Appearance (And a Few Hilarious Misspellings)”
