Margarita Engle's Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air
Irene Latham's Meet Miss Fancy
Elizabeth Steinglass's Soccerverse: Poems about Soccer
B.J. Lee's There Was an Old Gator Who Swallowed a Moth
A blog for the book IMPERFECT: a poetry anthology for middle schoolers about mistakes
How can we make the most of useful mistakes and do our best to fix the ones that need fixing? Poetry can help us figure it out.
Showing posts with label Margarita Engle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Margarita Engle. Show all posts
Monday, March 4, 2019
Soaring Elephant Soccer Moths
Some IMPERFECT poets have new books out this year! Check out:
Margarita Engle's Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air
Irene Latham's Meet Miss Fancy
Elizabeth Steinglass's Soccerverse: Poems about Soccer
B.J. Lee's There Was an Old Gator Who Swallowed a Moth
Margarita Engle's Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air
Irene Latham's Meet Miss Fancy
Elizabeth Steinglass's Soccerverse: Poems about Soccer
B.J. Lee's There Was an Old Gator Who Swallowed a Moth
Monday, April 9, 2018
Margarita Engle
Today we have a mini mistake poem by IMPERFECT poet Margarita Engle, who was recently nominated for the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Award. We don't have any Pippi Longstocking mini mistake poems yet, but wouldn't those be cool?
Margarita's poem gets to the heart of not giving up:
MARGARITA ENGLE is the 2017-2019 national Young People’s Poet Laureate, and the first Latino to receive that honor. She is the Cuban-American author of many verse novels, including The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner, and The Lightning Dreamer, a PEN USA Award recipient. Her verse memoir, Enchanted Air, received the Pura Belpré Award, Golden Kite Award, Walter Dean Myers Honor, Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, and Arnold Adoff Poetry Award, among others. Drum Dream Girl received the Charlotte Zolotow Award for best picture book text.
Her newest verse novel about the island is Forest World, and her newest picture books are All the Way to Havana, and Miguel’s Brave Knight, Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote.
Books forthcoming in 2018 include The Flying Girl, How Aída de Acosta learned to Soar, and Jazz Owls, a Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots.
Margarita was born in Los Angeles, but developed a deep attachment to her mother’s homeland during childhood summers with relatives. She was trained as an agronomist and botanist. She lives in central California with her husband. Follow her on Twitter at @YPPLaureate
Margarita's poem gets to the heart of not giving up:
Revision Blues
a tanka
the first draft
that flowed so easily
now needs
hard work, this painstaking
attention to details
MARGARITA ENGLE is the 2017-2019 national Young People’s Poet Laureate, and the first Latino to receive that honor. She is the Cuban-American author of many verse novels, including The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner, and The Lightning Dreamer, a PEN USA Award recipient. Her verse memoir, Enchanted Air, received the Pura Belpré Award, Golden Kite Award, Walter Dean Myers Honor, Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, and Arnold Adoff Poetry Award, among others. Drum Dream Girl received the Charlotte Zolotow Award for best picture book text.
Her newest verse novel about the island is Forest World, and her newest picture books are All the Way to Havana, and Miguel’s Brave Knight, Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote.
Books forthcoming in 2018 include The Flying Girl, How Aída de Acosta learned to Soar, and Jazz Owls, a Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots.
Margarita was born in Los Angeles, but developed a deep attachment to her mother’s homeland during childhood summers with relatives. She was trained as an agronomist and botanist. She lives in central California with her husband. Follow her on Twitter at @YPPLaureate
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