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Things to Do if You Are Spring and Add Your Own Line #PoetryFriday

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I’m so pleased to have a Things to Do poem on the last page of the Spring 2020 edition of Children & Libraries, the ALSC journal. Here’s the first half of it. You can read the full text here: https://journals.ala.org/index.php/cal/article/view/7312/10021 Boy, spring looks a lot […]

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First Date Haiku [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Well, in this world of chaos right now, poetry is one of the things keeping me calm and grounded. This month’s Poetry Princess challenge theme was “classic,” any form, any topic. I didn’t really know how to interpret that. But since my personal […]

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Belief in Birds and Asking Teachers for Poetry Tips #PoetryFriday

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Before I share my poem, I have a favor to ask of any of you teachers. I will be presenting very soon about writing poetry with students. My audience will be pre-service teachers in a course about literacy for birth through grade 3, and I’d […]

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More Than Two Sides [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Before moving on to my poem this week, I have a question for you. Do you know of one or a few kids ages 4-6 who would like to be in the book trailer for my first fiction picture book? The book comes […]

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Fairy Ring [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I wasn’t planning to post this week as I’ve been on school visits, and also because of my commenting debacle last week. Fingers crossed for this week! But the awesome poetry workshop kids at Hassan Elementary reminded me that playing with words is the whole […]

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Sacred Land #PoetryFriday

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[NOTE: COMMENTS ARE FIXED NOW–THANK YOU FOR NOTIFYING ME!} Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Each winter, I get to play games on 6 Friday nights with a spectacular group of creative people (some in the kidlit world, others in entirely different worlds). A couple of weeks ago, David LaRochelle was […]

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Your Song #PoetryFriday

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I mentioned that I was going to try writing poems in 20 different places this year for #20for20. I don’t know if I shared my list of places here yet, but one of them was the orchestra. That’s where I jotted down the […]

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Haiku to Welcome the New Year

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) We’re changing things up for 2020 and posting on the last Friday of the month. Or, you know, we kinda failed to get our act together for the First Friday, and…well, never mind. We’re here now, and that’s what’s important. Thank you, Liz […]

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Toilet Gets Bummed Out and Dreamy from In the Middle of the Night [#PoetryFriday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This is Week 3 (Week 1 here and Week 2 here) of my sharing a few bits from my three books on the 2020 NCTE Poetry Notables list! So honored about this!   And more big news to be very grateful for: Lion of the […]

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3 Equations from Snowman-Cold=Puddle [#PoetryFriday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This is Week 2 (Week 1 here) of my sharing a few bits from my three books on the 2020 NCTE Poetry Notables list! So honored about this!   Before I share tidbits, I have to show you this. You might know how my very […]

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