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Poetry Friday Roundup
You’ve arrived! It’s Poetry Friday and the Roundup is here! Welcome!Poetry Friday is a community of writers who poem together each week. Inspired by one another, the natural world, our messy lives, and other art-makers, we wrestle with verbs, with form, with blank...
Book Review: Anything
NOTE! If you're looking for this week's Poetry Friday Round-up, Rose Cappelli is our host!ANYTHING by Rebecca Stead 2025 ChronicleThis book is about wishes. But really it is about feeling loved and safe in the face of uncertainty. Edelweiss: A reassuring and uplifting...
A Golden Hinge
I was inspired by an Ethical ELA prompt to try a golden hinge, a spin-off of the golden shovel. golden hinge: a form in which a borrowed line can be read horizontally as the first line of the poem as well as vertically down the left spine, as the first words of each...
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Published poet & kidlit writer
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