I love surprising students. When schools invite me to visit, I often share the behind-the-scenes journeys of my books or unusual aspects like illustrations or STEM elements. These receive great reactions, when kids discover so many things about the creative process – and the world – they didn’t know. But when a school requests a … Continue reading Poetry Friday: First school visit of the year yields more student poetry!| Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
There are few things more comforting than a nice, warm serving of pasta – whether it’s a plate of angel hair carbonara, a thick slab of lasagna filled with roicotta and bolognese, or elbow macaroni swimming in five different cheeses. And today, we get to celebrate! I discovered earlier this week that today is National … Continue reading Poetry Friday: National Pasta Day needs something cheesy| Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
Last Friday at the o’ Triple-R we celebrated the 6-month book birthday of my debut poetry anthology, A Universe of Rainbows: Multicolored Poems for a Multicolored World (Eerdmans Books for Yo…| Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
3 posts published by Matt Forrest Esenwine during September 2025| Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
Excuse for a moment while I try to wrap my head around the fact that I just realized this is my 743rd blog post. Say, what?? When I began this blog in the summer of 2012, I was just trying to get my name out there and show folks what I did, and share a … Continue reading Poetry Friday: Celebrating 6 months of ‘Rainbows,’ Chappaqua, the NH Book Festival, AND the PF Roundup! (Whew!)| Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
My return from summer hiatus has been a bit different from past seasons. Tomorrow, Sat., 9/27, 10a-4p! I tend to primarily share my own work with a few poems by others here and there; however, the …| Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
Let me begin by saying this: If you’re going to write a poem with this kind of title, you can be guaranteed I’ll read it. Much like last week’s post, this was not the poem I’d intended to share today. But with the events of the past week or two, I’ve been trying to tone … Continue reading Poetry Friday: “Instructions for Building Your First Time Machine”| Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
Well, I’m finally back from my summer hiatus – spending time with the kids, enjoying some vacation time, doing lots of library visits – and I come back to see the country is on fi…| Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
We all had to start somewhere, right? . I’ve been trying to clean my office in preparation for our annual week-long familay vaca in York, Maine later this summer, and I happened upon more ancient artifacts relics issues of my college newspaper, The Spartan. It’s changed a lot since I was the managing editor back … Continue reading Poetry Friday: Looking to the past, and the future (and to my summer hiatus)| Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
This post was originally published 9 years ago, in June 2016; considering everything going on in the world these days, especially the turmoil here in the States, I felt it was important to pull it …| Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
You are in for a treat, today. And no, I don’t mean I’m sharing someone else’s poetry – you’re still stuck with mine. I am, however, keeping today’s post brief! The last couple of weeks, I’ve been sharing poetry I wrote was I was in high school and college – but today I’m giving you … Continue reading Poetry Friday: “Summer Frost,” from the Poetry Society of NH’s Spring 2025 literary journal| Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
Welcome to the first Poetry Friday roundup of National Poetry Month! My debut poetry anthology, A Universe of Rainbows: Multicolored Poems for a Multicolored World (Eerdmans Books for Young Re…| Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
