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From: Holly Thompson <hatbooks_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 09:44:18 -0400
Hello all, I'm so pleased that poetry books for children and teens is the topic this month and that Helen Frost's and Joyce Sidman's books will be discussed! And I'm so glad that poetry champions Jane Yolen, Lee Bennett Hopkins and Janet Wong are here from the start of the discussion!
Re. new anthologies, Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell have worked tirelessly to create the PFAM anthologies--with mini lessons to go with each poem. This month on Poetry for Children
<http://poetryforchildren.blogspot.com/>Sylvia is featuring poem movies that her students have made for poems in the PFAM Science anthology.
Editor Arthur Levine gave a talk at the SCBWI conference in LA, actually reading some of his favorite poetry and he shared with the audience the news that he aims to do more with poetry going forward, particularly what he referred to as "serious" poetry for young adults. Hopefully this means publishing more . . . I wonder if some poetry loving editors might be invited to join this discussion, perhaps on a particular day?
I would also be interested in any recommended translations of poetry for children and young adults. I'd love to read more poetry in translation from other countries, yet I know that in the U.S. translations from other languages into English in children's lit are rarely contracted for and published, and translations of children's poetry even rarer.
I think that any discussion of poetry for young people now must include the discussion of verse novels/novels in poems. Verse novels bring poetry via narrative to so many middle-grade and young adult readers now. I, too, loved *Crazy Man,* Maria.
FYI, I shared a short essay "Verse Novels as Intercultural Journeys" in the the USBBY newsletter *Bridges* Spring 2014<http://www.usbby.org/res/Newsletter_S2014.pdf> edition. And poetry is sometimes a focus in stories within verse novels--such as in Ron Koertge's *Shakespeare Bats Clean Up,* Sharon Creach's *Love That*
*Dog/Cat*, April Halprin Wayland's *Girl Coming in for a Landing,* and my own *The Language Inside*, which has a list of reference poems and many poetry prompts in the Reader's Guide. I'd love to be pointed to other verse novels in this same vein.
Happy Poetry Month! Best, Holly Thompson
Holly Thompson www.hatbooks.com http://hatbooks.blogspot.com
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Received on Fri 04 Apr 2014 08:54:45 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 09:44:18 -0400
Hello all, I'm so pleased that poetry books for children and teens is the topic this month and that Helen Frost's and Joyce Sidman's books will be discussed! And I'm so glad that poetry champions Jane Yolen, Lee Bennett Hopkins and Janet Wong are here from the start of the discussion!
Re. new anthologies, Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell have worked tirelessly to create the PFAM anthologies--with mini lessons to go with each poem. This month on Poetry for Children
<http://poetryforchildren.blogspot.com/>Sylvia is featuring poem movies that her students have made for poems in the PFAM Science anthology.
Editor Arthur Levine gave a talk at the SCBWI conference in LA, actually reading some of his favorite poetry and he shared with the audience the news that he aims to do more with poetry going forward, particularly what he referred to as "serious" poetry for young adults. Hopefully this means publishing more . . . I wonder if some poetry loving editors might be invited to join this discussion, perhaps on a particular day?
I would also be interested in any recommended translations of poetry for children and young adults. I'd love to read more poetry in translation from other countries, yet I know that in the U.S. translations from other languages into English in children's lit are rarely contracted for and published, and translations of children's poetry even rarer.
I think that any discussion of poetry for young people now must include the discussion of verse novels/novels in poems. Verse novels bring poetry via narrative to so many middle-grade and young adult readers now. I, too, loved *Crazy Man,* Maria.
FYI, I shared a short essay "Verse Novels as Intercultural Journeys" in the the USBBY newsletter *Bridges* Spring 2014<http://www.usbby.org/res/Newsletter_S2014.pdf> edition. And poetry is sometimes a focus in stories within verse novels--such as in Ron Koertge's *Shakespeare Bats Clean Up,* Sharon Creach's *Love That*
*Dog/Cat*, April Halprin Wayland's *Girl Coming in for a Landing,* and my own *The Language Inside*, which has a list of reference poems and many poetry prompts in the Reader's Guide. I'd love to be pointed to other verse novels in this same vein.
Happy Poetry Month! Best, Holly Thompson
Holly Thompson www.hatbooks.com http://hatbooks.blogspot.com
_at_hatbooks
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