Jessica Tackett wonders….
With Hunger Games fresh on everyone’s minds (even Kerri’s!), I’ve heard lots of recent chatter about book-to-screen adaptations.
But what I’ve been thinking about is the reverse: Screen-to-book. [...]
Jessica Tackett wonders….
With Hunger Games fresh on everyone’s minds (even Kerri’s!), I’ve heard lots of recent chatter about book-to-screen adaptations.
But what I’ve been thinking about is the reverse: Screen-to-book. [...]
By Francisco X. Stork
A few months ago, Cheryl Klein, my editor at Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic, asked if I would be interested in writing a novel about a young girl recovering from depression and a failed suicide attempt. My initial reaction was that such a book was the last thing I wanted to write. [...]
By Catherine Valdez
Her flesh was blotchy and red from the mosquito bites that she had scratched raw, and dried blood had dug under the rims of her fingernails. The hot Amazon canopy seemed to curdle her wounds and cook the blisters on her feet. She stopped to rest [...]
Okay, we just couldn’t resist ONE MORE installment of NPM. This, #8, is the last. Sorta sad. But with two such georgeous poems to remind us of why we read poetry, I know none of us will mourn long. Plus, this installment has poems by RAW INK founder Paul Hankins and much-decorated YA writer Jamie Adoff. Hot stuff.
So here is the Finale to our marathon 2012 National Poetry Month project, “Crossing Country Line by Line,” starting with YARN fave, Terra Elan McVoy of Georgia. THANK YOU for reading the 35 poets who made this month so amazingly, well, poetic. We’ll have more blog-like thoughts reflecting on this year’s amazing NPM project [...]
So we have an even bigger 6.5 installment than we promised earlier in the week. We definitely have Leila Monaghan of Wyoming, whose poem is a second response to cfrancis blackchild’s “leaving los angeles” in NPM 6 (which we’ve conveniently reprinted for you below), but we ALSO [...]
YARN’s National Poetry Month project “Crossing Country Line by Line” continues with this poetry chain started by cfrancis blackchild of Missouri.
leaving los angeles
my therapist cried when I left //
but I sat dry eyed [...]
YARN’s National Poetry Month project “Crossing Country Line by Line” continues with this poetry chain started by Eric Schwerer of Pennsylvania–and takes us all the way to Guam, and back to the main land.
YARN’s National Poetry Month project “Crossing Country Line by Line” continues with this poetry chain started by Alaskan and middle grade novelist Annie Boochever.
Sestina to Paul Allen’s Yacht
Into Juneau’s Harbor sailed the largest private yacht //
On earth– its girth eclipsed the rising moon, disaster [...]
YARN’s National Poetry Month project “Crossing Country Line by Line” continues with this poetry chain started by award-winning poet Gibson Fay-LeBlanc in Maine.
Going Home So My Dog Can Die
The great lake spoke a name//
I thought was mine [...]
And here is Installment #2.5 of “Crossing Country Line by Line,” starting with Karen Llagas of California.
Pantoum
I waited by Wal-Mart, among rows of lit houses. //
Your face tired, expectant. //
Friday, so we drove to Blockbuster, lingered [...]
And here is Installment #2 of our National Poetry Month (NPM) event “Crossing the Country Line by Line,”starting with Mark Prudowsky of North Carolina.
Crossing the Desert, No Destination
Don’t trouble yourself with thought,// [...]
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