A Year of Reading

This is one of my favorite #haikuforhealing for the week, and I thought it would make a perfect visual for our Tumblr Roundup Host, Lis...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by  Faruk Ateş Dear Mac and Cheese, I’ve got to hand it to you, you perfected the whole dissemblance...

Every Day Birds by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater illustrated by Dylan Metrano Orchard Books (Scholastic), 2016 This book-length poem pays ...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by Steve Johnson A Quiet Life by Baron Wormser What a person desires in life    is a properly boile...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by sriram bala What do potato chips know?      You can't resist us.      There's power in c...

YAM by David Guernsey The potato that ate all its carrots, can see in the dark like a mole, (the whole poem is at The Poe...

Go, Go, Grapes! A Fruit Chant by April Pulley Sayre Beach Lane Books, 2012 I said it last year when I reviewed Rah, Rah, Radish...

Le's Flaming Poo Poo Platter ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT Turns out I didn't need the Venti Awake Tea from Starbucks after all. Al...

Flickr Creative Commons photo by Janerc RHUBARB Such a waste. Leaves the size of elephant ears discarded. All that plant energy c...

How often do you get to meet one of your personal heroes (or sheroes, as the case may be)?  The absolute highlight for me of NCTE 2008 was h...