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I wish I was a star Not the kind on stage Where crowds and crowds Shouted and clapped And every time I looked around I had another photo shoot Or interview or somebody wanted me To do something important… But the kind floating Quietly around the sky Twinkling at the...
The Writer's Page: Yes, And...
In improv comedy there is a hard and fast rule: whatever your scene partner asks you to do, no matter how ridiculous or outrageous, you always answer, “Yes, and…” Saying no ends the scene and cuts off all possibilities. Saying yes continues the scene and provides infinite opportunities. It’s a...
Cadenza: No Poem Today
The Horn Book is 100! Hoorah and Hooray! To celebrate I’ll poe out a poem! If I can think what to say… After my uninspiring, hum-drummish day. I woke feeling “blah,” For the sky, it was gray. And I tread the same boring path, In the same boring way. Is...
What Poetry's For
It’s not just for nurseries. It’s not just for rhymes. It’s stories. It’s feelings. It’s wonders and crimes. Poetry’s for you. You read it. You hear it. You rap or you slam. So be into meter (as iamb, iamb!)— jump into the bounce that a pattern contains— or throw out...
Better Ask Somebody Else.
“Why,” I am asked, “is it so important for children to have poetry in their lives?” Not just “Important,” but “so important,” emphasis on that “so.” As if I knew. Is it? Is it really important for children to have poetry in their lives? In their lives how? Where would...
Five questions for Renée Watson and Ekua Holmes
In Black Girl You Are Atlas (Kokila/Penguin, 12–17), Renée Watson insightfully explores Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry encompassing a variety of experiences and influences, with an emphasis on support from other Black women, all accompanied by Ekua Holmes’s stunning collages. National Poetry Month is in April; see also “At...
Poetry & Folklore
In our Book Reviews section, between Fiction and Nonfiction, you can often find reviews of Folklore and/or Poetry. This is an “and/or” because we don’t always have both, and sometimes we have neither. Our coverage tends to ebb and flow, as do the trends in books being published. In our...
still learning
Growing up Was like fighting my way out of a ball of yarn Warm yarn. Loving yarn. Intelligent but myopic yarn. Lutheran yarn. German Lutheran yarn. Eventually, bits of German Lutheran fuzz all over me, In my eyes, in my brain, I got out: Stranger in a strange land. I...
Five questions for Joseph Bruchac
In the remarkable Voices of the People (Reycraft, 12 years and up), Joseph Bruchac writes thirty-four biographical poems about notable Native people, spanning approximately 1000 C.E. through the twentieth century. A reproduction of a piece of contemporary fine artwork by various artists, which resonates with the person or the theme,...
Five questions for Joy McCullough
In Enter the Body (Dutton, 14 years and up), Joy McCullough creatively re-envisions the stories of several of William Shakespeare’s heroines. Sections formatted as playscripts bring Juliet, Ophelia, and Cordelia together to compare experiences while other female Shakespeare characters (most notably the silenced Lavinia from Titus Andronicus) look on. These...
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