POEMS FOR A GREENER EARTH--The twenty-nine poems contained in this book incorporate a variety of topics related to taking better care of the planet we all call home. Also included are descriptions of twenty different poetry forms that were used to create the poems. Interest level: age ten through adult
Leslie Anne Perry, PhD, was born in New York, and currently lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina with her husband of 60+ years. A classroom teacher in Missouri for seven years, and a remedial reading teacher in Mississippi for six years, she is a professor emerita in the Clemmer College of Education at East Tennessee State University – where she taught children's literature and language arts for 20 years. She is the author or co-author of four traditionally published books, two traditionally published tests, and 68 articles in 58 different journals and magazines. Most of her 57 independently published books available on Amazon are short, and 31 are poetry books.