Poem In Your Pocket

A few days ago for Poem In Your Pocket Day, I carried around a poem from Black Stars IN A White Night Sky by JonArno Lawson. I love all the poems in this book but I chose a short one called "Are You Worried?"
My daughter and I took it one step further (or maybe people are already doing this). After I read her the poem in my pocket at the end of the day, she asked if she could 'borrow' it for her pocket and bring it to school the next day. So I passed it on to her.
Yesterday I found the folded piece of paper in the dryer. I wonder how many poems ended up in laundry this week.

Cybils Winners

The Cybils Winners have been announced!
Honeybee by Naomi Shihab Nye is the winner of the poetry category!
I just finished reading A Maze Me: Poetry for Girls by the same author and absolutely loved it so I'm excited to get my hands on Honeybee.
Off to the library I go ...

To see the complete list of the 2008-9 winners, go to: http://dadtalk.typepad.com/cybils/

Poetry for Girls

I've been reading A Maze Me: Poems for Girls by Naomi Shihab Nye. I got it from the library for my daughter, but I've been hogging it. The poems are beautiful, decadent, moving. They bring me back to those complicated years. I highly recommend this book as a source of inspiration for girls and young women. 

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