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From a City Dweller to Her Love [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Sara’s daughter, Rebecca, who’s been joining us recently (yay!), posed our challenge this month: a pastoral. She wrote: Some inspiration from The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms: “The pastoral is central to poetry. In a simplified definition, it […]

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City Bird [15 Words or Less]

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Hello, and welcome! This is 15 Words or Less Poems, a low-pressure way to wake up your poetry brain (guidelines here), and I’m very glad you’re here.  I love that even in a townhome very near a city’s downtown, I can look out my window and most days catch glimpses of birds, squirrels, butterflies and […]

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Photo Shoot Chaos

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Just a light behind the scenes story today. My latest book, Snack, Snooze, Skedaddle, is dedicated to my five great nephews and nieces in the Atlanta area. My husband, Randy, recently visited family down there, and he hand-delivered copies to each child. Then, because he is awesome, he took photos! I loved them and I […]

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What Time Forgot, by Nikki Grimes [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I recently read Nikki Grimes’ Ordinary Hazards. This young adult memoir in verse comes out October 8 and is by turns harrowing and hopeful. Nikki has always been such a smart, strong poet and woman–it was both painful and illuminating to read about her childhood, […]

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Roll the Bones [15 Words or Less]

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Hello, and welcome! This is 15 Words or Less Poems, a low-pressure way to wake up your poetry brain (guidelines here), and I’m very glad you’re here.  I love board games, and there’s a dice game we play with family (can’t remember the name of the game) that has loads of different kinds of dice. […]

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#GetLibraryCarded – It’s Library Sign-Up Month!

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I can’t let September slip away without saying thank you to libraries. Without libraries, I wouldn’t be much of a reader. Although my sisters taught me to read by age 4, almost all of my childhood books were library books, and 80% of my reading material still comes from my public library. From the time […]

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Mosquitoes and Mexican Free-Tailed Bats [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This week, I’m delighted to share Marilyn Singer’s new poetry collection, Wild in the Streets: 20 Poems of City Animals! (ill. by Gordy Wright, published by Quarto Publishing) I’ve been a fan of Marilyn’s poetry for such a long time. She writes in such a […]

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Pond Aerator [15 Words or Less]

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Hello, and welcome! This is 15 Words or Less Poems, a low-pressure way to wake up your poetry brain (guidelines here), and I’m very glad you’re here.  At the amusement park in August, I took this pic of a bubbler in a pond. This image makes me think of several things:

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Dot Day and Giveaway Winners for Snack, Snooze, Skedaddle!

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It’s International Dot Day–a great day to think about how you and your students might make your mark on the world! Read more here. Here are the two dots I’ve made in years past. And it’s the day I’m announcing the 5 winners of signed copies of Snack, Snooze, Skedaddle: How Animals Get Ready for […]

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The Opening of Snack, Snooze, Skedaddle + a Giveaway! [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Last week, my final picture book of 2019 published (I blogged about it here), and it’s a rhyming nonfiction book. I thought I’d share the opening two quatrains as my poem this week and invite you to enter a giveaway that ends Sunday […]

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