Inauguration Poem
Thursday, 21 January 2021

Poetry Friday is here this week, my friends. Welcome! Scroll down to the bottom of this post and Mr. Linky will help you join the round-up of poetry links. It is Inauguration Week. As poets, we paid special attention to 22-year-old Amanda Gorman, our country’s first Youth Poet Laureate and youngest person ever to write […]

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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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