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Today's guest poetry poster is Irene Latham,  an award-winning author of two volumes of poetry and two novels. She also serves as poetry editor for Birmingham Arts Journal and contributes poems to Scholastic's Storyworks and Scope magazines. Follow Irene on Twitter Follow…

I "met" Greg Pincus, today's guest poetry poster, when I came across his Fib poems and loved them. After years, I finally actually met him last summer. In person. For real. Don't miss Greg's site! Nor his social media focused site…

I am so happy Douglas Florian could join us as a guest poetry poster! He is an amazing artist, and an hysterically funny poet. Just read on, and you'll see!   Writing poetry's not hard. Grow a poetree in your yard. Feed it rhythm. Feed…

Today's guest poetry poster (despite the title) is my talented friend April Pulley Sayre. When I got to the part about what her teacher did to her, I gasped. Here is what April sent me: I don’t think of myself as a…

Thank you, Michael J. Rosen, for being today's guest poetry poster! Here is an interview with Michael and here is the podcast I did with him. In "Running with Trains," two boys speak in alternating poems. By the end of the book…

The funny and fabulously talented Lisa Wheeler is today's guest poetry poster! Why not check out (and LIKE) Lisa's Facebook Page? Mother Goose was my very first introduction to poetry. Equally attracted to both the metered rhyme and colorful artwork, I…

Please welcome Charles Ghigna as today's guest poetry poster!     "I hate poetry." I've heard that a million times. I used to say it myself. As a teenager, I thought poetry was for sissies and grandmothers. I didn't want any part of it.…