All Kinds Of Things to Say About Poetry!

Including being countdown-to-The Summer of Firsts and Lasts month, April is, as we all know, NATIONAL POETRY MONTH! All month long people across the country are celebrating poems, poets, and poetry in a variety of different ways.

And I am too!

This week, for example, you can see my new videos, courtesy of Chronicle. I talk about writing for teens, I talk about writing a novel in poems, and I even read some poems from After the Kiss.

But I’m not just making an appearance on my own website! I had the distinct pleasure of meeting “Miss Print” while in New York for the NYC Teen Author Festival in March, and she and I had a great interview that will be running on the 15th. But she has got a great poetry entry every day this month, so you should be checking her out no matter what! http://missprint.wordpress.com/

Meanwhile here are the poems songs that have been in my head upon waking this week:

“Made Up Love Song #43,” by the Guillemots
“Final Fool” (mashup of “Finally” by CeCe Peniston and shoot I forget what else!)
“Sweet Georgia Brown” (that Globetrotters song)
“Postcard to Nina,” by Jans Lehmon
“Terrible Love,” by the National
“Come On Eileen,” by Dexys Midnight Runners
“Falling Slowly,” by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova