National Poetry Month begins today. Of course, every month is poetry month around my house, but I realize that's not "normal".


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We interrupt this book review to bring you the following announcement:
This year, I will again be posting poetry-related material daily during the month of April. Unless I miss a day, but that's not the plan. And now, back to your regularly scheduled programming:Hey, you! Yeah, you! Wanna read a cool new anthology chock-full of poems of address ( Read more... )

Guess what I've been reading this week? That's right -- poetry. This week I've been reading several excellent (and instructive) poetry books by Paul Janeczko. Regular readers know that I rhapsodize about his excellent collaboration with Chris Raschka, A Kick in the Head, and, more recently, about Seeing the Blue Between, which I mentioned ( Read more... )

My township's local library is a marvel these days. It used to be a scrubby little building without much parking, but now it's a glorious new building with a beautiful reading room (for the grown-up stuff), a nice kids' area, and lots o' parking ( Read more... )

Feathers: Poems About Birds by Eileen Spinelli, illustrated by Lisa McCue ( Read more... )