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December 23, 2022
Fin Pal asks Norman Fishy Christmas Jokes!
Happy Holidays! We have presents for you! Below are 5 of Norman’s Finniest Christmas Jokes. Can you guess the answers?Some of them are real sinkers so get ready. . . ...
December 21, 2022
Poetry Challenge #275-Unfettered and Alive
I want to be free! Free to be! Born Free! or, if you live in New Hampshire, Live Free or Die! And thanks to Gustave Kahn, we can write free…verse!
Gustave Kahn (born Dec. 21, 1859, Metz, France—died Sept. 5, 1936, Paris), was a French poet and literary th...
December 16, 2022
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December 14, 2022
Poetry Challenge #274-Carolyn Rogers, Gave this World
Today we celebrate poet Carolyn Marie Rodgers was born in 1940 in Chicago. Rogers, who died from cancer in April 2010, often performed her poetry in coffeehouses—dramatic, passionate readings (I’ve included a video below so you can see and hear her yourse...
December 9, 2022
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December 7, 2022
Poetry Challenge #273-Akiko Yosano
There are days when I do not want to write a poem—because I don’t want to do the thinking that goes into choosing a topic or form or emotion or or or…Those days Haiku is our default. Haiku is one of the first poetry forms students learn because it’s short...
December 2, 2022
Fin Pal asks Norman "Do you sleep at night?"
Xujan-Mei’s underwat...
November 30, 2022
Poetry Challenge #272-John McRae's Legacy
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow…”The red poppy is the symbol of remembrance worn to honor fallen soldiers because of a poem written by John McCrae, a Canadian doctor and poet born on November 30, 1872.
...November 28, 2022
What Inspires Me? Plungers, Hooves & Boobies
Creativity is a quagmire of contradictions: “Follow the rules” “Learn the rules, then break them” “Make your own rules” “Rules are meant to be broken” “You didn’t follow the rules” “Been there done that”…
This is especially true of the picture book publishing world in which the two-dimensiona...
What Inspires Me? Museum of Broadway
There are museums for everything, right? Art museums, Sports museums, Train museums, Firefighter museums, Sex, Toy and Torture museums (different buildings in different cities). And yes, there is even the Museum of Everything. But… not quite everything!
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