Posts by Nancy Bo Flood
Read at Home
This weekend will celebrate a bookmobile becoming a reality. Our early literacy nonprofit, Read at Home, has worked with Chinle Planting Hope, to get this bookmobile on the road.
Read MoreFind the fire in your writing!
I hope you’ll join me, in person or via livestream, for Creative Writing I and II, offered through Colorado Mountain College.
Read MoreWalking Grandma Home
Looking forward to Walking Grandma Home being available to children and families, January 10, 2023, from Zonderkidz.
Read MoreA month … a year of poetry
Thank you for sharing this month of poetry. Poetry is quiet. Poetry roars. May poetry be part of many of your days this year.
Read MoreA Poem for Mothers
Sharing a poem by Julia Kasdorf
Read MoreJane Yolen
Can you tell us how your recent book When Nana Dances came to be? My co-author on this book, Maddison Stemple-Piatt, is my granddaughter. She was ten years old, in ballet…
Read MoreWe Belong, a Book Recommendation
In We Belong, with bright digital illustrations and a bouncy, engaging rhythm, Laura Purdie Salas introduces the reader to the many ways we are different as well as the many ways we all belong.
Read MoreNikki Grimes
When I asked Nikki to take part in my National Poetry Month celebration, I knew the possibilities of books to discuss were many. Nikki writes in poetry and sometimes prose, from picture books to middle grade novels to young adult books.
Read MoreSensory Images and Metaphor
Working with students in their classroom, after talking about creating sensory images and the use of metaphor, I read one of my favorite poems, “Seven Ways of Looking at Eagles,” written by Tonia Scabby Face, Lakota, a middle-school student at Red Cloud Indian School.
Read MoreWong and Vardell on Poetry
Today, in celebration of National Poetry Month, I’d like to share this video from Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell, talking about the book Good Luck Gold & more by Janet and sharing a poem from Jen Bryant, “Laugh,” in Pomelo Books’ Things We Do.
Read MoreApril Halprin Wayland
My friend, poet and teacher April Halprin Wayland, shares one of her poems with us, “Exercising My Voice.”
Read MoreJoy Harjo
A poem by Joy Harjo, poet, activist, educator, 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, Mvskoke [Creek] Nation
Read MoreJFK and Poetry
May I share a quote from John F. Kennedy that I keep above my desk?
Read MoreWater is Magic
Let us continue Celebrating Water.
Read MoreWater’s Children
Water: a book, a poem, a brief essay … a continuation of the celebration of water.
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