A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.
Poetry is frosted fire.
Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.
The laureateship [of U.S. Children's Poet] has brought me a couple of appealing contracts, including my first anthology, the 200-poem The National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry.Apart from the increased travel, I won't let anything interfere with writing poetry.
"Chocolate mustache" is from a line in the book. It's my favorite title (chosen by me), so I'm pleased that Never Spit was tossed.