From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:39:53 -0500

You're absolutely right, Lee! There are so many excellent sources of Poetry - and members of the CCBC-Net community have become sources, too, due to the many suggestions and opinions shared throughout this month. The National Council of Teachers of English has an award called The Excellence in Poetry for Children Award honoring a living American poet for his or her aggregate work for children ages 3 - 13. The award was given annually until 1982, at which time it was decided that the award would be given every three years. The next award will be given in 2006. The winners of this award so far are: David McCord, Aileen Fisher, Karla Kuskin, Myra Cohn Livingston, Eve Merriam, John Ciardi, Lilian Moore, Arnold Adoff, Valerie Worth, Barbara Juster Esbensen, Eloise Greenfield, X. J. Kennedy, and Mary Ann Hoberman. You can find out more about this award and the winners by visiting the NCTE website www.ncte.org Click on Elementary, then on Awards, and you'll discover the Excellence in Poetry for Children Award. Use your school or public library to locate books containing poems by these fine poets (and poems by other poets, too, of course!) Remember to browse in thematic anthologies. That's where you'll discover poems by these poets and also by a large number of poets. Anthologies represent a whole other aspect of Poetry, and were occasionally mentioned from time to time this month. You've already heard from or about some of the anthologists who may, or may not, be poets themselves. Anthologists whose thematic collections I turn to repeatedly include Lee Bennett Hopkins, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ruth Gordon, Liz Rosenbach, Arnold Adoff, Pat Mora, and Patrice Vecchione. And there are more. Many more... Peace, Ginny
 





Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu
Received on Wed 30 Apr 2003 04:39:53 PM CDT