A Few Kids Poems: Introducing Artist Kayla Stewart, 5

Did you guys know I write childrens' poems? I love it. In fact, my first published book was a children's e-book, Bubble Mud and Other Poems (available as a PDF file for anyone interested). The publisher no longer exists, and the rights to those poems have reverted to me. I've included some of the best …

Making Poetry Cool for School

I fell in love with a lot of poems when I was given the chance to look at them critically with my own eyes, perhaps even to disagree with the teacher or critics' opinions, and to debate that point in class with my peers. Oxford University Press has a new textbook for grade 10 English …

Taking the LEAP

American writer and poet Jamie Dedes, a former columnist and features writer, reviewed 'Leap' today in her Saturday Review series. I'm thrilled with her well-written, informative review (and tickled she'd put Anne Murray, k.d. lang, and Mark Vonnegut in the same sentence as my name) and wanted to share parts of it with my readers …

Celebrate Poet of 2010 Award

I'd like to thank Jingle and everyone in her wonderful poetry community for voting for me and the other talented recipients of the Celebrate Poet of 2010 Award. You can take a peek here to see this blog award and some other fun awards I've won lately. Sometimes, I even add a pair of sparkly …

Caption This!

Don't Blink—Day 7 Here's your Friday giggle and a challenge: caption this photo with as G a comment as you can (This blog is linked to my children's poetry site, I just want to keep things clean. Plus, it makes it more of a challenge). I can't think of anything rated PG, let alone G. …