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Blizzard, by Barbara Juster Esbensen

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Happy Poetry Friday! Usually, when I recommend poetry books–whether it’s to educators, kids, or aspiring poets–I recommend focusing on very current books. But Barbara Juster Esbensen is one of my favorites (see other posts where I’ve shared her work here and here and here), and her poems always feel like they could have been written […]

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[poetry friday] Mortimer Minute Blog Hop

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  OK, I usually don’t take part in memes and blog hops and such. It’s not because I’m anti-social (although I am) (oops, did I type that out loud?)?or because I have an aversion to chain letters (although I do)–it’s because I’m having enough trouble keeping up with blog posts and social media without having […]

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Poetry Friday Right Here!

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  Happy Poetry Friday! I’ve been re-reading Words with Wrinkled Knees: Animal Poems, an old collection by Barbara Juster Esbensen (who also wrote one of my favorite poetry collections ever, Swing Around the Sun). Here’s one poem I love: You must readthis word under waterunderwavering nets of coollightA vertical word     S     E     A     H     O     […]

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Poetry Friday: School Supplies

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  All week, I’ve been sharing school-themed poetry books I love. And of course, I couldn’t leave out School Supplies, a Lee Bennett Hopkins anthology. Here are just a couple of the poems I love from this book: Homework It rustles itshifts with no windin the room tomove itListen!the blank whitepaperneeds your attention.–by Barbara Juster […]

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