Did you know there is a Children’s Poet Laureate? Well, there is and has been since 2006. The inaugural Children’s Poet Laureate awarded by the Poetry Foundation was Jack Prelutsky and the current one is Jacqueline Woodson.
You can listen to former Children’s Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman reading from her book The Llama Who Had No Pajama here.
I’m so honored to have my poem “Comparsa in Oaxaca, MX” published in the November 2015 La Voz de Esperanza Peace & Justice Center in San Antonio, TX.
This 17th edition of La Voz de Esperanza with Literary Ofrendas & Calaveras is dedicated to all victims of police brutality.
#nevertakeyourhumanrightsforgranted
Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone
BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Sing me a song of a lad that is gone, Say, could that lad be I?
Merry of soul he sailed on a day
Over the sea to Skye.
BY KIM ADDONIZIO
I like to touch your tattoos in completedarkness, when I can’t see them….
TRANSLATED BY SUZANNE JILL LEVINE
Inventionof the night
Sprouting
at dawn
BY MICHAEL DONAGHY
Dearest, note how these two are alike:
This harpsicord pavane by Purcell
And the racer’s twelve-speed bike.
The Ruined MaidBY THOMAS HARDY
…
And now you’ve gay bracelets and bright feathers three!” —
“Yes: that’s how we dress when we’re ruined,” said she.
The Yellow VioletBY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
When beechen buds begin to swell,
And woods the blue-bird’s warble know,
The yellow violet’s modest bell
Peeps from the last year’s leaves below.
BY CLARINDA HARRIS
is that you can never see the one you’re wearing,that no one believes the lies they tell,
that they grow to be more famous than you,…
Woman in Peru, October 2015. (Photo courtesy of John Mark Jennings )
Uros Islands, Lake Titicaca Peru, October 2015 Photo courtesy on John M. Jennings
On the Island
BY LAWRENCE RAAB
After a night of wind we are surprised
by the light, how it flutters up from the back of the sea
and leaves us at ease….
Alice-Catherine 