Hello, writers and teachers! It’s lovely to visit with you, and happy 10th anniversary to this wonderful blog! For my blast from the p...

Today, I'm happy to welcome back former TeachingAuthor   Laura Purdie Salas with a guest Wednesday Writing Workout tailor-made for our ...

In this series of Teaching Author posts, we’re discussing the areas of overlap between fiction and nonfiction. Today, I’m thinking about cr...

. Howdy Campers! Yippee!--it's Poetry Friday!  (the link's at the end of this post ~) Confession regarding the title of this po...

This is a time of transitions here on the TeachingAuthors blog. Laura announced on Friday  that she is leaving our team. Even though she...

Today is my last post as a member of the Teaching Authors blog, and I'm kind of melancholy about it. Stepping down is my choic...

Happy Poetry Friday! Y'all are going to start to think that I only read poetry by J. Patrick Lewis. That is not true, though he is so...

For Poetry Friday, I'm sharing a poem from a book coming out this fall from J. Patrick Lewis and George Ella Lyon. I just received a...

Minnesota: The Birth of Old Man River A lake creates a lazy stream That flows through pines and slips away, Then picks up barges, logs an...

Happy Poetry Friday! I finally just had a chance to read Pug and Other Animal Poems , by Valerie Worth, illustrated by Steve Jenkins....

I just read the beautiful book, Firefly July , full of super-short poems (I LOVE super-short poems) celebrating the seasons. Our own April...