My Night in Haiku

Neil Gaiman, a favorite author of The Graveyard Book and Coraline, started a poetry trend on the microblogging site Twitter.  Using the hashtag #MyNightinHaiku, Gaiman asked his followers to come up with haikus to tweet and share.  Some of my favorites. Through the mist: I hear / territorial barred owls / I wait for the dogs. [...]

“Jerk”

I love your voice, your soft brown hair. I love your eyes and love your stare. I love your laugh, your cocky smirk, your stupid jokes. You precious jerk, you know I do. I want my hands all through your hair each treasured strand. I’m wrapped around your finger still. Am I yet yours? Your [...]

National Poetry Month

Besides the start of spring, I love April because it’s the start of National Poetry Month!  All month we’ll be posting some of our favorite poems and poetry related awesome. First up is a poem called “How I Discovered Poetry” by Marilyn Nelson.  It is part of a book called Poetry Speaks: Who I Am.  The [...]

Manifesto by Ellen Hopkins

To you zealots and bigots and false patriots who live in fear of discourse. You screamers and banners and burners who would force books off shelves in your brand name of greater good. You say you’re afraid for children, innocents ripe for corruption by perversion or sorcery on the page. But sticks and stones do [...]

SPEAK Up about Speak

We know Laurie Halse Anderson as a fabulous author who has written some very powerful stories – Speak, Fever, 1793, Twisted, Wintergirls and many more…. However, you may not know that she is also often included on many banned and challenged lists.   There was recently a HUGE uproar (yes, huge), as an associate professor [...]