Lauren goes to live with her aunt after her parents are required to enter rehab. They can't stop using drugs and neglecting Lauren. La...

Of course, as soon as I heard about this book, I wanted to read it. First because of the author: John Schu. Second: Novel in Verse Third: An...

 This week's topic is one I don't tend to read, so I'm changing it up. It's National Poetry Month and I just read a novel in...

  How do you speak up when it feels like no one is listening? One girl takes on seventh grade while facing mental health challenges, and mus...

 I quite enjoy reading novels in verse. I wrote up a column for VOYA about novels in verse in 2016. But I confess I haven't read many n...

Poetry and libraries collide! Here's a poem I wrote last year: Not a day goes by when I don't read. Reading is the air I b...

My first novel I wrote was in verse. Every now and then I like to play around with words and form poems. It started mostly after my col...

My first novel I wrote was in verse. Every now and then I like to play around with words and form poems. It started mostly after my col...

My first novel I wrote was in verse. Every now and then I like to play around with words and form poems. It started mostly after my col...

My first novel I wrote was in verse. Every now and then I like to play around with words and form poems. It started mostly after my col...

For National Poetry Month, I thought I'd try my hand at a few spine poems out of the books sitting on my bookshelf. Hope you Like them....

A memory caused me to write this poem. I found it fitting to share during the last day of April  in celebration of National Poetry month....

What I love about songs is the story told by the singer and it's even better for me if I know the singer wrote the song. These are the s...

Celebrating Poetry Month with Novels in Verse. For my first attempt at NaNoWriMo, I wrote a novel in verse about a girl in college: Emily ha...