In honor of Poetry Month, Easter, Passover,
and all things rabbity, my free-verse picture book,
To Rabbittown, originally published by Scholastic,
is 99 cents on iTunes, Kindle, Nook–yippee!
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My original poems, posted each day of National Poetry Month 2013, are imperfect. Messy. This is your chance to sneak a peek behind the scenes—before a poem is polished and published! (For my poems in 2010, 2011 & 2012, click on the Poetry link in the menu above.)
My friend Bruce Balan and I critique each other’s poems every day…so you’ll see Bruce’s comments on some of the poems.
Thanks for following so well. I’m tempted to take you to the dog park and let you romp off-leash… Ready? Let’s begin!
April 17
DETECTIVE DOG ~ rough draft
Detective Dog sat on his haunches
full of lunch
devoid of hunches
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At the end of a teen poetry writing workshop, I asked them toss out some nouns, which I wrote on the board. They could write a poem based on any of the nouns…or none of them.  One of the nouns was “detective”.
Bruce didn’t like this poem much.
I like that I can write a short poem!
Eli wearing one of his many Dog Detective disguises.
poem © 2013 April Halprin Wayland. All rights reserved
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