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Starting my day with the brilliance of Tracy K.
Smith:
"A poem...whispers in your ear--'hey, let me tell you what it was like'-- and proceeds to take you far beyond your known self & your intrinsic view of the world."
Wise words from her new book FEAR LESS. #poetry
Smith:
"A poem...whispers in your ear--'hey, let me tell you what it was like'-- and proceeds to take you far beyond your known self & your intrinsic view of the world."
Wise words from her new book FEAR LESS. #poetry
December 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Starting my day with the brilliance of Tracy K.
Smith:
"A poem...whispers in your ear--'hey, let me tell you what it was like'-- and proceeds to take you far beyond your known self & your intrinsic view of the world."
Wise words from her new book FEAR LESS. #poetry
Smith:
"A poem...whispers in your ear--'hey, let me tell you what it was like'-- and proceeds to take you far beyond your known self & your intrinsic view of the world."
Wise words from her new book FEAR LESS. #poetry
This week for #poetryfriday, I'm recalling a favorite treat my grandmother used to make. I'm not actually sure she called them pinwheels, but that's what I remember. readingtothecore.com/2025/11/07/p...
Poetry Friday: Happiness: Warm from the Oven
This month, Linda prompted the Inkings to respond to Ethical ELA’s September Open Write by Kelsey Bigelow: “What is the happiest thing you’ve ever tasted?” I thought long and hard about this prompt…
readingtothecore.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
This week for #poetryfriday, I'm recalling a favorite treat my grandmother used to make. I'm not actually sure she called them pinwheels, but that's what I remember. readingtothecore.com/2025/11/07/p...
Heartbroken that this is such an apt description of the current administration.
“They were careless people … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Heartbroken that this is such an apt description of the current administration.
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A dual interview with two women deeply connected to the great novel TUCK EVERLASTING . If you ever loved the book, you're not going to want to miss this... #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/09/02/t...
Tuck Everlasting Turns 50: Talking with Lucy Babbitt and Katharine Woodman-Maynard About Its Importance and Legacy
A dual interview with two women deeply connected to the great novel TUCK EVERLASTING. If you ever loved the book, you're not going to want to miss this...
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September 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
A dual interview with two women deeply connected to the great novel TUCK EVERLASTING . If you ever loved the book, you're not going to want to miss this... #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/09/02/t...
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July 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
This giveaway of my new book continues all week!
Five winners!
Spread the word 🎉
Enter at this link:
forms.gle/9p1LRoTJFQsR...
Five winners!
Spread the word 🎉
Enter at this link:
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Check out @imaginationsoup.bsky.social's 20 Best Middle Grade Books of 2025 (So Far!) imaginationsoup.net/best-middle-...
20 Best Middle Grade Books of 2025 (So Far)
Whether you’re heading back to school and want to buy new books for your library or classroom, or you’re a parent who wants to add...
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July 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Check out @imaginationsoup.bsky.social's 20 Best Middle Grade Books of 2025 (So Far!) imaginationsoup.net/best-middle-...
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“We reach out to departed loved ones, feeling their presence fleetingly, and then we are faced with our own bodies, our own realities,” writes the medievalist Sebastian Langdell. “And we are asked a question: How best to spend our remaining days?”
Opinion | After a Friend’s Death, I Started Dead Lifting With Dante
After a friend’s death, a medieval literature professor learns to love the gym — and finds unexpected connections to his studies.
nyti.ms
July 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
“We reach out to departed loved ones, feeling their presence fleetingly, and then we are faced with our own bodies, our own realities,” writes the medievalist Sebastian Langdell. “And we are asked a question: How best to spend our remaining days?”
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I’ll be discussing this podcast in FAR more length in the future, but if you want to hear the most insightful discussion of Lois Lowry’s The Giver to date (thanks to @jonathanauxier.bsky.social & me hub), you just gotta listen to this: #kidlit 📚👍 podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/s...
Shame Shelf: The Giver
Podcast Episode · A Good Story Well Told · 17/04/2025 · 1h 5m
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April 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I’ll be discussing this podcast in FAR more length in the future, but if you want to hear the most insightful discussion of Lois Lowry’s The Giver to date (thanks to @jonathanauxier.bsky.social & me hub), you just gotta listen to this: #kidlit 📚👍 podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/s...