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An Observation about Eve Merriam's Poetry
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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 08:21:58 -0500
What a wealth of wonderful poetry suggestions we're having the opportunity to enjoy! We hope each of you has already found a way to share at least one poem each day with someone else in a card or note to an adult friend - or with a group/class of children/teens. This is only the beginning. The NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry is given thoughtfully, as you can see from the examples of poems already offered to the CCBC-Net community. Let's continue to mine and share the poems of the honored poets: Eve Merriam, John Ciardi, Lilian Moore, Arnold Adoff, Valerie Worth, Barbara Esbensen, Eloise Greenfield, and X. J. Kennedy.
Meanwhile, here's a surprise from Eve Merriam's son, Dee Michel, who was contacted by Angelica Carpenter, who is a Fresno, California, participant in the CCBC-Net community. Dee writes: Here is my nomination for favorite Merriam poem: "Apple" from HALLOWEEN ABC.
"You be good and I'll be night" from the book of the same name may be sillier and more fun to read out loud.
"Landscape" from FINDING A POEM critiques society more bitingly, it must be allowed.
"How to Eat a Poem" uses the same image of fruit being Eden; it is so often anthologized, it makes me proud.
Eve had an affinity for alphabet books and apples and puns. For gleeful evil that hurts no one, That elicits the squealing of kids having fun, The surprise ending of "Apple" is just the one.
- Dee Michel
Thanks from all of us, Angelica, for sending along this message, a fine example of how the apple does not fall far from the tree!
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center
(http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/) A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Fri 07 Apr 2000 08:21:58 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 08:21:58 -0500
What a wealth of wonderful poetry suggestions we're having the opportunity to enjoy! We hope each of you has already found a way to share at least one poem each day with someone else in a card or note to an adult friend - or with a group/class of children/teens. This is only the beginning. The NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry is given thoughtfully, as you can see from the examples of poems already offered to the CCBC-Net community. Let's continue to mine and share the poems of the honored poets: Eve Merriam, John Ciardi, Lilian Moore, Arnold Adoff, Valerie Worth, Barbara Esbensen, Eloise Greenfield, and X. J. Kennedy.
Meanwhile, here's a surprise from Eve Merriam's son, Dee Michel, who was contacted by Angelica Carpenter, who is a Fresno, California, participant in the CCBC-Net community. Dee writes: Here is my nomination for favorite Merriam poem: "Apple" from HALLOWEEN ABC.
"You be good and I'll be night" from the book of the same name may be sillier and more fun to read out loud.
"Landscape" from FINDING A POEM critiques society more bitingly, it must be allowed.
"How to Eat a Poem" uses the same image of fruit being Eden; it is so often anthologized, it makes me proud.
Eve had an affinity for alphabet books and apples and puns. For gleeful evil that hurts no one, That elicits the squealing of kids having fun, The surprise ending of "Apple" is just the one.
- Dee Michel
Thanks from all of us, Angelica, for sending along this message, a fine example of how the apple does not fall far from the tree!
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center
(http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/) A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Fri 07 Apr 2000 08:21:58 AM CDT
