This just in: Hey, You!, my latest anthology, has been selected as a Bank Street College of Education Children's Book of the Year 2008. Learn more about the book.
Thanks for coming back to visit my web site. I have three pieces of news to share with you.
I'm back in cahoots with my buddy, J. Patrick Lewis, on a new book. Our new collaboration is Birds on a Wire, and it is a renga, or linked poem. Like the haiku, a renga is an ancient Japanese verse form in which poets take turns adding verses. The first poet writes three lines (similar to a haiku), the second poet follows with two lines, the first poet comes back with another three lines, then two, three, two, and so on. As usual, Pat and I had fun working together. It is a Wordsong book that will be published by Boyds Mills Press in the fall. Don't worry. I will let you know when it's available. In the meantime, you can get a sneak preview of the book here.
On April 19, I will traveling to Poland to work for a week at the American School of Warsaw. Very exciting stuff. I'm hoping that I might be able to do a bit of genealogical digging while I'm there in an attempt to learn more about my roots, since all of my grandparents were born in Poland. On Saturday, April 26, I will fly to Prague in the Czech Republic to do some research at Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp that is the subject of my next book of poems.
I'm happy to announce that A Kick in the Head will be issued in a paperback edition in Spring 2009, tentatively scheduled for March. I will post a definite publication date as soon as I know one.
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