It’s been a busy month away from home, but I am finally back again and on the final countdown for the start of school. Poetry Friday is a perfect way to ease into the routine. Today’s offering is a revision of a mask poem I wrote ages ago in a UCLA extension children’s poetry class. [...]
This week’s Poetry Friday roundup is being hosted at Jama Rattigan’s Alphabet Soup! Who would have thought that Tricia’s suggested poetry stretch (a recipe poem) would be so hard? For me, the challenge was trying to use the right mix of real recipe language while “cooking up” a poem about something as impossible as “Summer(y) [...]
It’s that time again – Poetry Stretch – and this week’s challenge was to write an acrostic poem. Since I’ve been playing around lately with garden poems, my offering this week is about a garden for those who love veggie pizza. I’ve seen these gardens described in several places and recently, at a workshop [...]
I've lived and traveled around the world, but now make my home in California.
By day, I teach; evenings and many weekends, I write.
My teaching, reading, and writing eventually led to a Master's degree in Language and Literacy and, later, an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
My first picture book, BLUE ON BLUE, is forthcoming from Beach Lane Books (Simon and Schuster).