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Heat Is a Lemon Lollipop – a Triolet [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) So, this month, our Poetry Princess challenge was a triolet on the theme of heat. I’ve been buckled under a number of deadlines and didn’t think I was going to make it. But on Tuesday, I carved out one 25-minute writing session, and […]

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2019 Poetry Blast at ALA in Washington, DC

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Happy Poetry Friday! Last Saturday, I got to be part of the 2019 Poetry Blast! I had last gone to ALA, to be part of this same event, in 2013. At that time, I was sharing my first two poetry collections, Stampede and BookSpeak! And I was totally overwhelmed. (Thrilled but overwhelmed.) This year, I […]

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Poetry Blast and a Riddle-ku #PoetryFriday

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Hello! I’m on my way to Washington, DC, for the annual ALA conference! I hope to maybe see a few of you there? I’m attending to take part in the Poetry Blast, an annual poetry celebration organized by Marilyn Singer and Barbara Genco. So, Saturday […]

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Equationpoems from Young Authors Conference #PoetryFriday

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) [My husband had shoulder surgery yesterday, and in the confusion, I posted this Poetry Friday post Wednesday night instead of Thursday night. Oops!] The week of Memorial Day, I taught at Success Beyond the Classroom’s Young Authors Conference–something I look forward to each year! This […]

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Skinny Poems with the Poetry Princesses [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) So, this month, our Poetry Princess challenge was a skinny. I was excited because I saw some of these at Margaret Simon’s blog a while back and wanted to try them. A Skinny has 11 lines, and lines 1 and 11 can be […]

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Three Days of Poetry at Isanti Intermediate School [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Last week, I was honored to spend three days with 4th and 5th graders playing with poetry. We wrote 15 Words or Less Poems, Paint Chip Poems, Things To Do If You Are… Poems, I Am Poems, Found Poems (using pages from National Geographic that […]

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My Poems at the TLA Poetry Round Up #PoetryFriday

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to attend the Texas Library Association conference in Austin to take part in Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong’s awesome Poetry Round Up. What a great event! I’m sharing the clip of the poems I read here: And […]

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Writing Rhyming Nonfiction Books #PoetryFriday

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Today, I’m over at the Teaching Authors blog, linking back to my favorite lesson/activity from my time there and pondering whether I still write rhyming nonfiction the same way. I’m also sharing that I have a Patreon community where my Patrons are supporting me (generally […]

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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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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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