Poet’s Sanctum
Featured Guests for our “From Asia with Love” Bimonthly Theme, May-June 2013
We are very excited to announce our featured guests this May-June 2013 for our bimonthly theme From Asia With Love – A Feast of Asian Literature. Featured Book Artist: Naomi Kojima Born in Japan, Naomi Kojima has divided her life between the United States and Japan. Her first two picture books, Mr. and Mrs. Thief and The […]
Powerful Women’s Voices in GatheringBooks for March and April
We have just recently launched our Bimonthly theme on Girl Power and Women’s Wiles. It is pretty cool that we are celebrating women’s voices alongside the kidlit community who is likewise celebrating women’s month. We are very proud to share with you all our featured academic and story teller for March and April. Meet the […]
Poetry Friday: There Are No Happy Endings [because] We Have Such Solid Measures for Pain // Two Poems by Joel M. Toledo
It’s Friday once again—that day of the week when poetry decides it’s a good idea to invade the blogosphere. For days now, I was contemplating on what poems to feature for this beautiful weekly meme hosted today by JoAnn at TeachingAuthors. Week after week after week, Myra and Iphigene have shared the magical words of […]
Poetry Friday: A poem for 2012 – Joel M. Toledo’s ‘The New Hollow’
Two more nights and 2012 is upon us. As I was sifting through Joel M. Toledo’s poetry, our Featured Poet in GatheringBooks for November and December, I was struck by this title: The New Hollow as taken from his book The Long Lost Startle. I felt that it would be a fitting contribution to Poetry Friday […]
Poetry Friday: A Prayer by Joel M. Toledo
I thought that it would be fitting to share with you this lovely poem by Professor Joel M. Toledo entitled “A Prayer” since it speaks to the gleeful voice amongst most of us as we celebrate Christmas in two days’ time. It encourages us to raise our eyes heavenward in conversation with our Creator – […]
