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 [...]

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 [...]