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Lem Tremolo, by Kurt Cyrus [Poetry Friday]

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  I’m sharing a poem today by Kurt Cyrus, the poet and illustrator of one of my top five poetry collections, Hotel Deep (which I blogged about here). This one is from Your Skeleton Is Showing: Rhymes of Blunder from Six Feet Under (Disney-Hyperion, 2013, illustrated by Crab Scrambly). It’s a funny, morbid collection, and […]

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Poem of the Day: The Belch of a Blowfish (by Kurt Cyrus)

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  OK, the poem isn’t actually called The Belch of a Blowfish, because the poems in this amazing collection are untitled. But that’s how it starts out, and I had to put something in the title of this post! Hotel Deep: Light Verse from Dark Water (Harcourt, 2005), is one of my all-time favorite picture book […]

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