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Beautiful werewolf… by Peter Jay Shippy
Thanks so much to Stacey & David for allowing to me visit. And much thanks to you, for stopping by! For my final poem-as-text for a children’s book, I’ll go back, just a bit. …
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PSA Hosts Annual Award Ceremony: Marilyn Nelson Delivers Frost Medal Lecture (by Madge McKeithen)
Wanda Coleman, above left, and Marilyn Nelson, above right “The hunger to be heard can be crippling,” Wanda Coleman said. “Tonight, their work has been elevated to its proper place, validated, the burden a…
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“Wild Nights!” [by Alex Bennett]
Wild Nights after Emily Dickinson Wild wild wild wild wild wild nights. Were I with thee with thee wild nights. Were I with thee with I nights.Wild nights wild nights these should be hour…
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The moment one learns English by Peter Jay Shippy
“The moment one learns English, complications set in.” Felipe Alfau (Chromos) Harryette Mullen’s Sleeping with the Dictionary (Univ. of California Press) is one of my favorite books to read, teach, and recommend to children,…
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“Undead, undead, undead” by Peter Jay Shippy
“Undead, undead, undead” (Bauhaus) Recently I’ve been teaching a class that explores fairy takes, new and old. One of our texts is My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New…
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Mother Died Today [by David Lehman]
Mother died today. That's how it began. Or maybe yesterday, I can't be sure. I gave the book to my mother in the hospital. She read the first sentence. Mother died today. She laughed…
