On Saturday it was my joy and honor to join other local poets at Ruffner Mountain Nature Center for a nature-themed poetry reading. We met i...

This is my first-ever t-shirt quilt. I learned that they are harder to create than they look! Since I am the Queen of Shortcuts, I thou...

This past Saturday our niece Jenn married Tim in an outdoor wedding by a lake, with a reception in a nearby barn. It was all perfectly ...

"There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each ...

I often tell groups about how my very first writings were love poems for my mother -- and that LEAVING GEE'S BEND is also a love poem fo...

I've just spent some quality time with Caroline Kennedy's POEMS TO LEARN BY HEART, illustrated by Jon Muth. I'm not a big memo...

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Borrowed from the library and now have to go out and buy my very own copy. LOVE when that happ...

"I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down." - Allen Neuharth

Last week I shared the questions that would be addressed at the Experience Poetry! Panel in Vicksburg, Mississippi . What a wonderful event!...

Thank you, Kristina, for one of my favorite letters EVER. :)

WEE RHYMES: Baby's First poetry Book by Jane Yolen with illustrations by Jane Dyer includes sweet, short verses on the topics of eatin...

My sister took this picture in her yard! Thanks to Mississippi Writers Guild , Lorelei Books and Vicksburg Public Library , Saturday I ...

Can you see those jellyfish?? Or, if in a petri dish, sperm... And here is a quote for you: "The clouds,  -the only bird...

All month I've been meaning to write about the awesomeness that is Poetry magazine, how they give away all those copies every year to a...

Hello, and welcome to Poetry Friday Roundup! It is my pleasure to host today on this, the 3rd Poetry Friday of National Poetry Month. Yay fo...

I've just spent some quality time with WHEN THUNDER COMES: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders by J. Patrick Lewis with illustrations by J...

Okay, so I stole the subject line from a poem called "Daffodil Bulbs" in SEEDS, BEES, BUTTERFLIES, and MORE: Poems for Two Voice...

What to say about Fay B. Kaigler ? It was awesome! It started at True Vine Cottage , thanks to gracious, generous Beck McDowell , author o...

You know it's going to be a good book of poems when it's authored by the likes of Jane Yolen and Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- and GRUMB...

There is something so appropriate about the marriage of poetry and the subject of fishing in Tamera Will Wissinger's debut GONE FISHING ...

Today I'm excited to welcome Janet Fagal, a poetry enthusiast whom I had the pleasure of meeting this past November at NCTE. While she d...

Is it just me, or is it sad to read a book of poems by a poet who is no longer with us? Especially when you really love the poems. Sigh. ...

Leave it to the one and only J. Patrick Lewis to birth a book based on odd holidays. Illustrations are by Anna Raff. And the title poem ...

One of the things I love about poetry is the opportunity it provides for creative wordplay. You can alter words, smush them together, add ...

So I've just been savoring Amy 's first book of poems, thinking about how this spare, lovely verse is rich in exactly the same way...

"One kiss and you painted a picture of heaven It's there when I look in your eyes Well, I swear I can see forever Under ...

We did one of the coolest things ever on our recent trip to the beach: we took a family sandsculpting lesson! Rick Mungeam of Beach Sand S...