Each Wednesday, with the permission of these young poets and their families, I'll publish some of the juicy and colorful produce harvested from my after-school and classroom projects. (The busyness this week is because I concluded SING A STORY, PLAY A STORY programs featuring BARTHOLOMEW & THE OOBLECK at two schools and published an anthology of 16-20 poems for each.) It has also been part of this dream to provide a place for elementary-aged kids all over, with the help of their teachers and parents, to submit poems for online publication. As far as I'm aware, there is otherwise no online journal of poetry by children, and I aim to fill that gap! (Anybody want to work towards that with me? I'm pretty sure that will take more than one person to pull off.)
As for my own work, I'm busy as a bee keeping up with the February Poetry Project with Laura Shovan and 40 others. A daily prompt is posted and with this year's theme of STORY, I'm doing some work that feels new and stretchy to me. Here are two drafts that bear some connection (and some weight hee hee), one personal and true and one imagined and true in a different way. Thanks to Scott Rhoades and Kathy Mazurowski for the prompts that led to these.
And thanks to Carol Varsalona (who sent a lovely postcard in a beautifully calligraphed envelope) at Beyond Literacy Link for hosting us today with her characteristic warm and fuzzy welcome!
