by Xianna Michaels | Feb 5, 2017 | Books
Dear Reader, Many of you have been asking what I've been up to lately and I'm thrilled that as 2017 gets underway, I do have exciting news to share! I've just sent my newest book off to the printer! It's called The Alchemy of Illuminated Poetry®—Seven Steps to Your...
by Xianna Michaels | Apr 3, 2016 | Editorial
brain So what do Thomas Jefferson, Oscar Hammerstein II and my high school chemistry class have in common? As it turns out, something rather significant, though it took me many years to figure it out. What on earth am I talking about? I'm talking about desks, standing...
by Xianna Michaels | Nov 30, 2015 | Editorial
Editorial People often ask me if I have a favorite poet, and I usually say that I have favorite poems rather than one favorite poet. But if I had to choose, then I'd say that besides Shakespeare, who is in a class by himself, it would be Emily Dickinson. As a sixth...
by Xianna Michaels | Aug 10, 2014 | Editorial
Month: August 2014 I wrote my very first poem for a school assignment in the third grade. I remember the exhilaration I felt when the words came to me and I realized, “I can do this.” I wrote many poems for my teacher, Mrs. Blank, that year. I don’t remember them, but...
by Xianna Michaels | Jul 20, 2014 | Editorial
emma July 22nd is the birthday of American poet Emma Lazarus (1849-1887). She was the fourth of seven children in a Sephardic Jewish family whose New York roots went back to the colonial period. She was related to Benjamin Cardozo, Associate Justice of the Supreme...
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