Feb 1, 2018
The Spectator
This week I had a poem in The Spectator. Their humor contest asked for poems in the style of Gilbert & Sullivan beginning with the line,...
Jan 26, 2018
National Geographic: The Poetry of US
The Amazon page just went up for National Geographic's new children's poetry anthology, The Poetry of US, to be released in September....
Dec 6, 2017
Bloomsbury Anthology
I just learned that a poem of mine will appear in the upcoming Joshua Seigal anthology of funny children's poems! My poem involves an...
Sep 12, 2017
Double-Dactyl Word List
There's a light verse form known as the double-dactyl, and strict adherence to the form requires that one of the lines consist of a...
Sep 9, 2017
Mrs. Bond: "Come to be Killed!"
I came across this nursery rhyme recently while reading the The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes to my son. It's a lot of fun to read...
Sep 9, 2017
Igseriousity
Here's a children's poem of mine that appeared in the online magazine, Bumbershoot, which was brilliantly edited by Kate Bernadette...
Sep 8, 2017
Fun (a children's poem)
FUN If fun were not fun you can bet I for one would rather have no fun at all, for fun once begun till the moment it's done means that...
Sep 8, 2017
A limerick
It may strike you as strange, but it's true: when you breathe, you breathe out CO2, and so it may be that some plant or some tree made a...