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[Nonfiction Monday] Eureka!

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?I am SO excited to announce that BookSpeak! Poems About Books (Clarion, 2011) was awarded a Eureka Gold Medal for excellence in nonfiction. This award from the California Reading Association is for?every book that is not expressly fiction.?Yay! And Dare to Dream…Change the World (Kane Miller, 2012, edited by Jill Corcoran), a beautiful, inspirational?anthology of […]

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Poetry Friday: Just Like That (my poem from Dare to Dream)

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A couple of weeks ago, I shared “Faith of a Mustard Seed,” by Hope Anita Smith, from?Dare to Dream…Change the World, a poetry anthology conceived of and edited by Jill Corcoran (Kane?Miller, 2012). Several of the poems have stuck in my mind since reading them, which is really saying something, given my meory. Hope Anita’s […]

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Poetry Friday: Dare to Dream (with a poem by Hope Anita Smith)

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I received my contributor copies a couple of days ago for Dare to Dream…Change the World, a poetry anthology conceived of and edited by Jill Corcoran (Kane?Miller, 2012). Oh. My. Gosh. I read the entire book while I did the elliptical. See, poetry is good for you in so many ways. Seriously, this is one […]

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