April is National Poetry Month! Celebrate with:

Videos featuring the Children’s Poet Laureate, Mary Ann Hoberman, from The Poetry Foundation
The International Reading Association, lesson plans on “Composing and Performing Found Poetry“
Activites from The Academy of American Poets
Activities and more from Reading Rockets
Interviews with 36 poets from The Miss Rumphius Effect
30 Poets/30 Days, new poetry on Gotta Book

Apologia

In this spot
My post is not.

But stay tuned, friends –
Writer’s block
Always ends.

So take a look
Another time.
You’ll find I’ve blogged –
And not in rhyme.

I’ve been fighting a censorship battle all week. No, a parent did not challenge one of my books in a library. I should be so lucky. That kind of challenge is news- and publicity-worthy.
Instead, I was battling the censors from Texas right in my own head. Worse, I was losing.
Yesterday I submitted my second nonfiction [...]