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Review | Ballistics by Billy Collins

Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? To celebrate the beginning of National Poetry Month, and the letter B for the A to Z Challenge, I’d like to introduce you to one of my favorite poets,...

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Review | Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins

Billy Collins has long been one of my favorite modern poets. His poems are extremely accessible and yet also interesting and profound. I especially like the humor that can be found in Collins’ poetry....

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Review | Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds

Stag’s Leap: Poems is a sequence of poems that carries readers through the seasons when Sharon Olds’ marriage was ending and afterwards as she healed from her divorce. I was first attracted to this...

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Review | The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander was the winner of the 2015 Newbery Award. The story is a quick read about a junior high school basketball player named Josh. Josh’s father was a famous basketball...

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Review | Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Brown Girl Dreaming won the 2015 Newbery Honor award as well as the National Book Award. It’s a biographical story about the author, Jacqueline Woodson’s childhood. This book had a big impact on me. I...

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National Poetry Month: Favorite Poetry Selections

With April being National Poetry Month, I thought I’d share some of my favorite works of poetry with you. Each one contains accessible poems for the never to occasional to ‘I read them all the time’...

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