Hello, and happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit one of the sweetest souls on the internet, Amy, at The Poem Farm for Roundup! Today I am ...

So there are two 2013 books I love with the title GOLDEN BOY. One is by Tara Sullivan -- and it releases today! (thanks to Excellent Editor...

photo contributed by Linda Baie It's an airplane! It's a dolphin! It's Linda Baie 's cloud pic, which she generously sha...

Happy Poetry Friday! Carol at Carol's Corner is our friendly Roundup host. Go see! Last week I featured zoo animal poems by Valerie W...

I first became aware of the picture book THE STAMP COLLECTOR by Jennifer Lanthier, illustrations by Fracois Thisdale, at Fay B. Kaigler Ch...

"There were many skies. The sky was invaded by great white clouds, flat on the bottom but round and billowy on top. The sk...

So I've been writing short poems and reading for inspiration Valerie Worth's ALL THE SMALL POEMS AND FOURTEEN MORE, with illustrat...

“Not that I'm a happy man, nor even an unhappy man,” he'd told her. “But happiness, unhappiness, are too trivial to mat...

I was sitting at an intersection about a mile and a half from our home in the suburbs of Birmingham when I saw this sky. I thought, man, ...

Happy Poetry Friday! Don't forget to visit amazingly creative and inspiring Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference for Roundup. 1. F...

My father sent me this quote, from THE SHARKS OF LAKE NICARAGUA by Randy Wayne White: "Adventure-travel is any activity used as a ...

Aldridge Gardens is one of my favorite spots in the Birmingham metro area any time of the year. Add art and it approaches the divine. Her...

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...