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From: Nancy Bo Flood <wflood_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:42:36 -0700
Thank you for this wonderful conversation, Joyce. I have enjoyed each set of questions and responses and learned so much. I have been a quiet listener at the back of the room and after each conversation have continued to think about your descriptions of your writing process - which varies - and writing journey. My comment is for Joyce but also for everyone, especially librarians and bookstore owners. So often when I read the more serious or informational poetry written for older children I think about how much adults would enjoy and appreciate these selections. This month when I was blogging about novels in verse at www.readerkidz.com, I also included the more serious poetry of Arnold Adoff, Marilyn Nelson ("How I Discovered Poetry," "Fortune's Bones," "The Freedom Business"), Andrea Cheng, and Walter Dean Myers. I thought about how these collections are found in libraries and bookstores as part of poetry for children. I think that many adults would be amazed at these works and many others if only they knew about them. But adults (unless they are teachers or writers) generally don't look through the children's poetry collections for their own reading. I remember thinking this when I first discovered Lee Bennett Hopkin's anthologies and again more recently when reading Paul Janeczko's "Requiem, Poems of the Terezin Ghetto." Again this year, I thought that adult readers would want to know about "What the Heart Knows."
During this past decade adult readers have discovered the amazing quality of young adult books. We have "cross-over" novels; I ask if there are ways to make known the quality of young adult poetry?
Nancy Bo Flood
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:53:39 -0500 Subject: Re: [ccbc-net] Questions for Joyce Sidman From: joyce.sidman_at_gmail.com To: mlindgren_at_education.wisc.edu; ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu
Many, many thanks for including me and my books in this Poetry Month discussion. I joined this CCBC listserv many years ago, and have always enjoyed the lively, intelligent commentary. The fact that my own work is being discussed is sort of a "pinch me" moment for me! Helen Frost raised many interesting points, and I will do my best to be as clear and considered as she was.
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Received on Fri 25 Apr 2014 01:43:02 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:42:36 -0700
Thank you for this wonderful conversation, Joyce. I have enjoyed each set of questions and responses and learned so much. I have been a quiet listener at the back of the room and after each conversation have continued to think about your descriptions of your writing process - which varies - and writing journey. My comment is for Joyce but also for everyone, especially librarians and bookstore owners. So often when I read the more serious or informational poetry written for older children I think about how much adults would enjoy and appreciate these selections. This month when I was blogging about novels in verse at www.readerkidz.com, I also included the more serious poetry of Arnold Adoff, Marilyn Nelson ("How I Discovered Poetry," "Fortune's Bones," "The Freedom Business"), Andrea Cheng, and Walter Dean Myers. I thought about how these collections are found in libraries and bookstores as part of poetry for children. I think that many adults would be amazed at these works and many others if only they knew about them. But adults (unless they are teachers or writers) generally don't look through the children's poetry collections for their own reading. I remember thinking this when I first discovered Lee Bennett Hopkin's anthologies and again more recently when reading Paul Janeczko's "Requiem, Poems of the Terezin Ghetto." Again this year, I thought that adult readers would want to know about "What the Heart Knows."
During this past decade adult readers have discovered the amazing quality of young adult books. We have "cross-over" novels; I ask if there are ways to make known the quality of young adult poetry?
Nancy Bo Flood
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:53:39 -0500 Subject: Re: [ccbc-net] Questions for Joyce Sidman From: joyce.sidman_at_gmail.com To: mlindgren_at_education.wisc.edu; ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu
Many, many thanks for including me and my books in this Poetry Month discussion. I joined this CCBC listserv many years ago, and have always enjoyed the lively, intelligent commentary. The fact that my own work is being discussed is sort of a "pinch me" moment for me! Helen Frost raised many interesting points, and I will do my best to be as clear and considered as she was.
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