A Year of Reading

  Welcome to the first Friday of National Poetry Month! Susan has the Poetry Month Project Roundup for lots of Poetry Friday bloggers' ...

Novelist and poet Irene Latham has never shied away from hard topics. With Charles Waters, she has tackled race and racism head on (pun inte...

Gene Luen Yang was the National Ambassador of Young People's Literature way back in 2016, but his "Reading Without Walls Chal...

If you haven't seen Colby Sharp's "Awesometastic" Creativity Project, I'll give you a minute to explore it a bit . ...

Unsplash photo by Joshua Earle Life On Top Make a mess Make a life Life is sweet Life is bitter Bitter end Bitter ...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo boiling water tea leaves understand relax ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2017 Welcome to the Poetry Fri...

Flickr Creative Commons photo by Greg Wagoner Playing Checkers With Vincent Maybe I should have let him win. He was an honest pl...

I'll be rounding up "old school" this week.  Leave your links in the comments.  I'll add them to the post as t...

Flickr Creative Commons photo by Brett Bolkowy Have you read LITTLE TREE by Loren Long? Franki reviewed it here . (Go ahead and click ...

The Farmer's Away! Baa! Neigh! by Anne Vittur Kennedy Candlewick Press, 2014 As the farmer drives away from the barn o...

The last of my Summer Poem Swap poems will be mailed tomorrow. I have combined my poems and photos to make magnets. I just about snor...