Posts by Nancy Bo Flood
Swish, Basketball
I am honored to have a poem included in What is a Friend?, the newest poetry anthology from Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong. (Listen to me read this essay. Scroll…
Read MoreChinle Planting Hope Mural
Adrian Thompson (Navajo) and volunteers are adding a 9 foot by 80 foot mural to the Thrift Store Wall, part of the Chinle Planting Hope and Read at Home projects in Chinle, Arizona. What’s this project all about?
Read MoreWhy do we paint murals?
Big. Murals are big. Bright. A building becomes a canvas of story, of color, Powerful swooping swirls of yellow, orange, red.
Read MoreRead at Home: a New School Year
Approximately 450 subscriptions of Highlights’ High Five children’s “learning and literacy” magazine will begin arriving at schools on a variety of tribal nations.
Read MoreStrange is our situation here on earth
Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why …
Read MoreViolence in Our Country
“Freedom and justice for all ….” Unless you are murdered at school.
Read MoreMemorial Day 2022
This weekend the sacrifices made by our soldiers and veterans are especially real and poignant as we realize the terror and destruction of war happening in Ukraine.
Read MoreRead 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.
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