Hello, Poetry Friday friends! 2025 finds me posting less --but still working hard on my poetry. I plan to try to...
Popi’s All Souls Song
I clearly remember the day my nana died. My mom and dad sat the five of us down and despite their tears spoke of the...
A Poetryaction
Leslie Barnard Booth's lyrical love letter about the transformation of a stone made for a wonderful opportunity to...
Book Review: A Stone Is a Story
As picture book writers, we know there’s the “through-line” (this story is about…) and the “heart-line” (this story is...
The Big Box of Books
It's Poetry Friday! Please visit Margaret at Reflections on the Teche. She has the round up links for all of our...
#50PreciousWords
My entry for Vivian Kirkfield's 2023 #50PreciousWords International Contest:Once again, Vivian is using this fabulous...
POETRY FRIDAY: World Kindness Day
This Sunday, November 13th,has been designatedWorld Kindness Day!An international holidayto promoteKINDNESSthroughout...
CK Malone: Their Process
Plotter? Pantser? Up all night? How does a picture book manuscript come to be? CK Malone on their writing...
CK Malone: Hook, Heart, Takeaway
As a bigender, neurodiverse, kidlit author, CK Malone breaks barriers in presenting a character who longs for a...
CK Malone: What Excites? What Terrifies?
They should feel excited. Afterall, they are a debut picture book author. But CK Malone is also...
Poetry Friday: Wonder Walking
“Is the wind the world breathing?” (excerpted from WONDER WALKERS by Micha Archer; 2021 Penguin Random House) ...
Poetry to Ponder: Julie Fogliano
"Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder." (Edward...