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Most of my published writing is my body of twenty (so far!) middle grade and young adult novels of mystery, suspense, ghosts, and time travel. I've had some essays and articles published in magazines over the years . . . but I've never really tried poetry. Until just a couple weeks ago! I've been teaching a First Year Writing course to my college students this semester in a departure from Creative Writing, and I thought that along with trying their hand at research papers, persuasive writing and narrative essays, we would try poetry. I had them pick one of their earlier assignments for the course and turn it into both a series of Haiku AND a Shakespearean sonnet. Astonishing results! (Imagine a sonnet about Blockchain...and Haiku about public art installations...). I wrote right along with them, and enjoyed the challenge. So much fun!

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Your poem is beautiful and moving. Especially "You are a point of light."

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