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Gargoyle [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) A couple of weeks ago, I won a copy of Kate Coombs’ new poetry collection, Monster School (Chronicle, 2018, illus. by Lee Gatlin) from a giveaway on Jama Rattigan’s Alphabet Soup. Kate is a lovely poet, and she writes a wide variety of poems (from […]

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Water, Water Everywhere [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I’m back with a third poem from The Poetry of US, J. Patrick Lewis’ newest anthology with National Geographic. I originally wrote this poem for one of my books for teachers, Wacky, Wild, and Wonderful: 50 State Poems. Other than family, the only […]

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World Tour (After a Lucia Micarelli Concert) [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This month, our Poetry Princess challenge was to write a poem with an anaphora–a repeated, open-ended phrase.  Recently, Randy and I attended a concert by Lucia Micarelli, a wonderful violinist. (We saw her years ago performing with Jethro Tull.) Although I played violin […]

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Revenge (of the Bonneville Salt Flats) [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) As promised, here’s another poem from The Poetry of US, J. Patrick Lewis’ newest anthology with National Geographic. I was looking back to see a bit of my writing process. I knew right away I wanted to right about the salt flats in […]

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Sacred Land [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I’m thrilled to be hosting today, as it’s almost my birthday, and I’m awaiting the arrival of The Poetry of US, J. Patrick Lewis’ newest anthology with National Geographic. It features poems about or set in diverse spaces around our country, and I […]

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spike roof shadow: Building Short 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 my choice! And I chose short poems (6 lines or fewer) about animals that had to include three words (or forms thereof): spike, roof, and shadow. I was inspired by two books: Myra Cohn Livingston’s […]

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Daydreams Through a Looking Glass – Collage Cento [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This month, Sara chose a cento as our Poetry Princess challenge. Not just a cento, but a cento collage, in which we would each choose one word from a set of lines Sara provided from poet Agha Shahid Ali and then find a […]

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My Favorite Picture Books So Far in 2018 #PB10for10

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It’s August 10, time for 10 for 10! Here are 10 of the best picture books I’ve read so far this year. It was so hard to narrow this list down, as there have been others I’ve adored, too, but I stuck to the rules. The first two are poetry collections/anthologies, and the final two […]

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Afraid to Wish for Answers [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) You know, we Poetry Princesses organized our monthly challenges for this year at the end of 2017. And a sestina in July sounded just peachy. Really. Then…real life. My husband and I moved on Monday, and July was a month of frantic packing, […]

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On Your Way to School #PoetryFriday

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell have done it again, creating another poetry anthology perfect for educators to use to grow readers who are excited about poetry. Great Morning!  (Pomelo Books, 2018; hear a sample read here) is a wonderful selection of poems meant for school […]

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