Today's Featured Guest Reader - Connecting the Dots

U.S. children's author-poet David Harrison has penned nearly 80 books (about one-fifth which are children's poetry books). He is also the poet laureate of Drury University in Springfield, Missouri where he lives. (His term in this position was renewed in 2008).

Mr. Harrison hosts a blog called "Connecting the Dots" which is one of the four children's poetry blogs I read daily.

You can catch me today as the featured guest reader on his blog. He has posted my photograph along with my poem: "It Takes a Friend: A Poem for Two Voices".

Thank you again, David, for giving this emerging children's poet a chance to share her work with your blog readers.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

"Prose is words in their best order. Poetry is the best words in their best order." -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Upcoming Guest Appearance on Connecting the Dots

U.S. children's author-poet David Harrison will be featuring me as one of the guest readers (of his blog) in the very, very near future.

For those of you who do not know him, he is the author of nearly 80 children's books (about one-fifth which are children's poetry books). He is also the poet laureate of Drury University in Springfield, Missouri where he lives. (His term in this position was renewed in 2008).

Once I have the date as to when he will be posting my poem and photo on his blog, I will let you all know. To view his blog, which is called "Connecting the Dots", click here.

I think it is so generous and helpful that he is giving readers of his blog a chance to share their work.

David will be leading Somebody Ought to Write a Poem, a workshop in writing children's poetry, which takes place from Thursday, June 2nd - Sunday, June 5th in 2011. This session will be offered as one of the Highlights Foundation Founders Workshops which are hosted at the home of the founders of Highlights for Children near Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Click here for full details and registration information.