I've been watching the TCK series over at Djibouti Jones with interest.  She's featured many voices, and today she has mine.  Head ...

Traveling again yesterday, and next Friday too.  So once again, here's the link to what everyone else posted yesterday!  I'm lookin...

I'm falling down on the blogging job, and didn't even manage a post yesterday.  But my Poetry Friday cohorts did not let you down.  ...

I've been away from my computer all week, and just got back to it.  But lots of other people posted poems today, so go check out the rou...

Good Night Many ways to say good night. Fireworks at a pier on the Fourth of July spell it with red wheels and yellow spokes. They fi...

In the Library by Charles Simic    for Octavio There's a book called "A Dictionary of Angels." No one has opened it in...

I wrote here about the poetry session I attended on Monday. It was probably my favorite session of the whole conference, and it was a lot ...

In the opening session on the last day of the IRA Convention, we heard two great speakers.  The first was the Mayor of San Antonio, Julián C...

I just listened to this Poetry Magazine podcast, from November 2012 , and heard a wonderful poem by Idra Novey called "The Visitor....

As I've commented several times, my favorite sessions at the IRA Convention are the author panels. In the dystopia panel I attended on ...

I finally finished Middlemarch . While I found it a little slow going at first, by the end I couldn't put the book down, wanting so muc...

I listened earlier this week to this lovely interview with Walter Brueggemann. Some excerpts: Ms. Tippett: . . . I ask you to be a t...

If you've been reading these highlights posts, you'll know that I tend to gravitate towards the sessions where novelists are talking...

This will be a turtle-y post in honor of our new turtle, Bruno.  Actually his/her (?) name with the previous owners was Smyrtle, and I did a...

I always enjoy the author panels, and this one was exceptionally good, because all three of the National Ambassadors for Young People's ...

Many people are scared to come to Haiti.  It's not surprising; if you read what the State Department has to say about the country, you...

In the opening session on Sunday, we heard two speakers: Debbie Silver, author of Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8: Teaching Kids to Succeed , an...

My husband has been coming home with some odd objects lately. A wooden tray, some tools, some half-empty bags of rice. But most of all, sp...

The next session I attended was about the YA Choice Awards, which, as the name suggests, are voted on by young people.  In between the annou...

The first smaller session I went to was called "Exploring Genre Within the Reading Workshop."  You can see the description and han...