Searching for the Boy
In honor of poetry Friday, my update for the new book project MTLB. Searching for the boy I find him not running not hiding but standing up for someone who is not him for someone who is like him for...
View ArticleA Single Haiku
In honor of poetry Friday, a haiku that sums up my writing progress on MTLB. Poetry lets me stand naked wearing only emotional threads And fun stuff, the wonderful reading advocate Esme Codell of...
View ArticleEvolution of a poem from Hugging the Rock
For this week’s Poetry Friday I thought it might be interesting to go back to the first poem in HUGGING THE ROCK and see if I could trace it from idea to finished poem. So here you have it from raw...
View ArticleIt's a real book and remember that blurb I mentioned???
Today is my book’s secret birthday! That special day when authors receive their very first copy of their new book. I knew what it was as soon as I saw the envelope. I could feel the hard cover inside...
View ArticleIf it's Thursday . . .
If it’s Thursday it must be time for poems of 15 Words or less with Laura Salas. I love this exercise! You should try, even if you don’t consider yourself a poet (I don’t call myself one.) It’s a great...
View ArticleLooking for poetry recommendations
I will be doing a long (10 sessions) poetry workshop in a few weeks. I’m looking for poetry recommendations, either a book or a single poem even. Here’s the catch – the audience is a group of 10...
View ArticleLooking for poems about . . .
I’m looking for hopeful poems. Poems about people making changes in their life. Poems about following dreams. They need to be easily accessible/understandable to marginal students. And not super...
View ArticleGetting Past the Fear
Before I had Cassie, I had Chelsie. The two dogs could not have been more different. Chelsie was afraid of everything, thunder and lighting, firecrackers, gunshot, most people (especially men) and...
View ArticleBuilding a Poetry Shelf (room?)
It is poetry Friday, just barely, a little left in the night. I’ve been thinking of poetry today even if I didn’t get a post up. I want to add to my poetry collection. I have many shelves (seven so...
View ArticleComing soon! Kick the Poetry Can'ts
Much to the joy of poets and poetry lovers everywhere, national poetry month begins April 1st. For the last few years I’ve been writing a poem a day for National Poetry month. One year it was haiku...
View Article2012 KidLit Progressive Poem stops HERE today
Welcome to day 5 of the first (I think) experiment in collective verse, the 2012 KidLit Progressive Poem! This fun idea was the brainchild of the talented Irene Latham Irene got us started on the first...
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