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What Am I Up To This National Poetry Month? You! #PoetryFriday

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This year, for the first time in many years, I’m not writing a poem a day for Poetry Month. This makes me sad, but with school visits, a writing retreat, a book launch party, and a conference in Texas, I knew I just couldn’t do […]

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DC Trees [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.  My regulars, I’ve missed you the past two weeks! I was on a weeklong school visit one week, a mini writing retreat last week, and now I’ve just […]

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Listen to Laura Share Snowman-Cold=Puddle Sunday Night!

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Hi, friends! While I was at the awesome Denver Children’s Festival of Stories in March, Kristen Olsen recorded an interview with me for Tunes and Tales, her radio show about children’s literature. I answered questions about Snowman – Cold = Puddle: Spring Equations (Charlesbridge, illustrated by Micha Archer) and read about half the book. I […]

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Introducing Lion of the Sky #PoetryFriday

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  lie down in whiteness     kick and SWISH and wave your arms            give me winter wings                                        –Laura Purdie Salas, from Lion of the Sky I’m so excited about this book, my third and final poetry collection of the spring! If you’d like to learn […]

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Lighted Moose [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 actually don’t know where I took this photo, but it was in January, and it made me smile. This image makes me think of several things:

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Sharing a STEM literature activity at Patricia Newman’s blog

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Hi, educators! Today, I have a guest post over at fabulous nonfiction author Patricia Newman’s site as part of her LitLinks series. In it, I explain a great way to use equation poems in other content areas. I hope you’ll stop by if that sounds interesting to you! It’s an activity I shared at NCTE […]

Poetry-Palooza Book Launch Photos

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On Saturday, I celebrated my three spring releases with a launch at Red Balloon Bookshop! It was so great to share SNOWMAN-COLD=PUDDLE (Charlesbridge), IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT (Wordsong), and LION OF THE SKY (Millbrook) with readers! Click for more images, but here’s my favorite!

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Sky Love Story – an Anagram Poem [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) We were scrambling for our form this month, and Tricia suggested anagram poems. She was inspired by Linda Baie’s lovely idea and poem here. As a theme, we picked weather or umbrellas or natural cycles. I wrote my poem mostly on a flight […]

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial [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’ve been to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC several times, and I’m moved by it every time. Like many things that lend themselves to poetry, it feels […]

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Dreamy #PoetryFriday

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I want to share one more poem from In the Middle of the Night, plus ask y’all a favor. Here’s the poem, one of the few unrhyming ones in the collection. I just love acrostics, and I wrote this poem after my editor, Rebecca Davis, […]

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