Beyond Boundaries · Essays and Tidbits From Nancy Bo Flood
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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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.
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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.
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My friend, poet and teacher April Halprin Wayland, shares one of her poems with us, “Exercising My Voice.”
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May I share a quote from John F. Kennedy that I keep above my desk?
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Let us continue Celebrating Water.
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Water: a book, a poem, a brief essay … a continuation of the celebration of water.
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Water is precious. Water is life. Water is unfair, but this doesn’t have to be.
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Lois Lowry: “I think it’s something that literature does, that writing does, that speaking about things does. It keeps our hearts from breaking.”
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A few weeks ago, someone was asking about books that touched upon—or included—domestic abuse/ family violence. Paulsen’s book is an autobiography.
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I have been pulled toward the subject of suicide since I was a teen despite its stigma, and worked on my first suicide hotline when I was eighteen. That’s because as an adolescent I struggled not only with depression but with some periods of suicidality, and I understand the dangerous power and seduction of it when one is suffering mental despair.
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