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A Sad Day
I am sad to report that after eight happy years, Candlewick is finally putting ALPHAOOPS: THE DAY Z WENT FIRST out of print in hardcover.There are only about 50 left in existence — if you’ve ever...
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This is just to say…that what I really wish I still had is Josh Rayner’s parody of this poem he wrote me in 10th grade that started out, “I burned your newly-finished novel yesterday…”This Is Just To...
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National Poetry Month, Day 14
Also in 10th grade, each of us had to choose a song for class and discuss the poetry of the lyrics. Casey chose “Pure” by The Lightning Seeds…our favorite song that year. I went more Broadway and...
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National Poetry Month, Day 15
Reportedly, this is the world’s shortest poem, attributed to Ogden Nash (but under debate):Fleas Adam Had ‘em.Ogden Nash did, however, pen these shortie-but-goodies:Parsley It’s gharsleyandI like...
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National Poetry Month, Day 16
I fell in love with this poem because it was the one that Anne of Green Gables performed enthusiastically to a surprised and welcoming crowd. By rights I should have fallen for “Lady of Shalott” in a...
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National Poetry Month, Day 17
When I was young, I was often referred to as “The Little Girl With the Little Curl.”I had always thought of this as a Mother Goose nursery rhyme…until looking this up for National Poetry Month, I HAD...
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National Poetry Month, Day 18
Poor Emily Dickinson, becoming famous after her death, leaving that giant trunk full of her work behind. This was a genuine fear of my childhood. I can’t tell you how incredibly happy I am to be...
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National Poetry Month, Day 19
I never read Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, but I knew very well who The Guy was. When I discovered this poem in my twelfth grade textbook, I fell in love so hard I even wrote a poem of my own in response...
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Waiting for Maleficent
(Now I want to write a parody play with this title. But that’s beside the point…)I was notified yesterday that The Huffington Post had cited THE ENTIRE WOODCUTTER SISTERS SERIES as part of a list of...
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National Poetry Month, Day 20
My response to “Tears of the Hollow Men,” written after a personal family issue…and a dream about a monk who wrote a poem describing the shifting of a cloud from an eagle to an...
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Princess Alethea On Her Writing Process
My dearly beloved bosom companion Leanna Renee Hieber posted an incredibly fun and insightful interview last Monday about her writing process last week, and then asked if I wouldn’t mind answering the...
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National Poetry Month, Day 22
Because I was such an avid reader and lover of poetry as a child, I did not discover Shel Silverstein until my friends started passing around copies of Where the Sidewalk Ends at school.I enjoyed...
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National Poetry Month, Day 23
In honor of Shakespeare’s birthday today (and World Book Night tonight!), here is my favorite sonnet.SONNET 130 My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If...
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Princess Alethea and the Power of Words
As promised, here is the small speech I gave at the World Book Night Givers Reception last night at Gum Springs Library. xox**********************“Words have power.” This phrase was said by Mama...
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National Poetry Month, Day 24
In the wake of World Book Night, please enjoy some fun poetry from The Wonderland Alphabet!***********************AA is for Alice, a curious girl Who fell very far through a hole in the world She...
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National Poetry Month, Day 25
Some cultures do not see a Man in the Moon…they see a rabbit. This is my poem based on one of the Chinese legends of the Rabbit in the Moon.(Also available on Wattpad – click...
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National Poetry Month, Day 26
I wrote this poem in the back of a catalog during a particularly grueling “buy session” while working at A Certain Book Wholesaler. It was raining that day…and I guess I was feeling poetic.“Escapist”...
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National Poetry Month, Day 27
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Gashlycrumb Tinies, by Edward Gorey.Beauty in a subversive alphabet…if The Wonderland Alphabet could be credited to anyone other than Lewis Carroll, it would be Edward Gorey.***
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National Poetry Month, Day 29
May we all write such an omelet…and know such love.**********************I Wrote A Good Omelet by Nikki GiovanniI wrote a good omelet…and ate a hot poem… after loving you Buttoned my car…and drove my...
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National Poetry Month, Day 30
What a great month it’s been! I wanted to close out my National Poetry Month posts with a classic. Have a great day, everyone. And remember: You ARE a poet. You just don’t know it....
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