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From the publisher: We are thrilled to announce our first anthology that features poets, writers, and artists from around the world. This collection will be published online and in print paperback copies. It can be accompanied with an interactive Plant Diary. This plant diary is a tool you can use to document all your plant […]

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Saturday, 21 May 2022

“The assignments here not only initiate first-rate student writing, they help inspire the young poets behind the writing to outdo themselves… I am particularly struck by the imaginative clarity and sense of discovery in the poems…They offer the reader wit, fun, and a depth that shows real thought behind the language.” ~ Stanley Plumly, Maryland […]

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Saturday, 21 May 2022

“The poets of this collection may be regional but the poetry isn’t. There are enough delights to read and reread that I urge anyone who is or has been in love to get this book for their personal library. A lot of poetry is being written today but much of it will produce only a […]

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Saturday, 21 May 2022

2010 Harriss Poetry Prize Winner “Laura’s background in drama and television, journalism and teaching, childhood education and parenting, all clearly inform her poetry with an acute and dramatic attention to the details of everyday life. In her workshops with children and adults, she asks them ‘to stop and pay attention’ because she feels that poetry […]

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Laura Shovan

Laura Shovan is the author of the award-winning middle grade novel, The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary. Her second book, Takedown, is a Junior Library Guild and PJ Our Way selection. Look for A Place at the Table, co-written with Saadia Faruqi, in 2020. Laura is a poet-in-the-schools Maryland.

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