WONDER WHEELS is now available on Kindle. WONDER WHEELS, my second novel for young adult readers was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1979 --- 34 years ago. It quickly went into a paperback edition with Dell who just reprinted my first novel, MAMA, still in...
MAY! Or where did April go? I had a wondrous birthday, celebrated with family and a host of great friends. I so enjoyed my first SKYPE interview with the effervescent, Renee La Tulippe -- one who truly does her homework. Since the piece aired in late...
It is hard to believe I turn 75 on April l3th. I keep thinking of Sondheim's song from FOLLIES -- "I'm Still Here." It is POETRY MONTH. I did a long SKYPE visit with Renee La Tulippe for her www.nowaterriver.com site. Renee is incredibly charming,...
NANCY WOOD - JUNE 20,1936 - MARCH 12, 2013 Although she lived, loved and died in New Mexico, she was born in Trenton, New Jersey. In a letter to me in 1994, she said: "I grew up in Trenton, mostly, but also spent a fair amount of...
It only happens every three years that both the Lee Bennett Hopkins/Penn State Poetry Award and the Lee Bennett Hopkins/International Reading Association (IRA) Promising New Poet Award are given. This year the Penn State Award goes to Kate Coombs for WATER SINGS BLUE: OCEAN POEMS,...
