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From sonyasones.com: What Is This Book About? Why don’t I let Holly tell you: My name is Holly. This story is about me— a writer who’s way behind on her deadline. But, honestly, how can I concentrate on my work when my fiftieth birthday’s rushing at me like a freight train, my hormones are making [...]

In reading Donna’s post yesterday about Ellen Hopkins, I feel like I could have written the same thing about Sonya Sones.  Sonya’s books were the first that I ever read that were written in verse.  About five years ago her book,   One of Those Hideous Books Where The Mother Dies, was very popular among [...]

Sometime last year around the time of Banned Book week a book called Crank kept popping up on my radar. I had heard about it but never picked it up. I was at the used book store and saw Crank on the shelf. After hearing so much about the book, I snagged it and brought [...]

We hope you have been enjoying our month fulled with poetry! We would like to formally invite you to our poetry chat on Friday, April 29th at 5:30 pm pacific time. We will begin the chat with everyone expected (to at least try) to speak in verse. This ought to be super interesting for many [...]

Let’s be honest- that photo is hysterical, and when thinking of musicians who bring to mind poetry, Bon Jovi isn’t the first thing that springs to most people’s minds. For me though, looking through the list of songs written by Jon Bon Jovi and/or the other members of Bon Jovi reads like a soundtrack of [...]

The lyrics of some of my favorite songs come across to me as poetry. A gifted songwriter is able to spin his or her words just the right way to weave a beautiful story and make it all work with a catchy tune. In 1987 I was listening to the radio in hicksville where I [...]

If I cant crawl inside of you, I‘m laughing with a broken face I stumble across my self-esteem. But to picture the pleasure Is making me want my space. Understand… That God wrapped you like a bow. But in my head… There’s some shelves that need cleaning from, Basement to ceiling, control. … THE ANSWER [...]

Richard Cory Whenever Richard Cory went down town, The people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim.   And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, “Good-morning,” and he [...]

April 15th One of our favorite authors, Cheryl Renee Herbsman inspired us to start one of our own Friday Fives. Check out her amazing blog. The way this works is each Friday morning we will post a prompt, question, topic, idea, etc that we will respond to. We will try to keep it general but [...]

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was orphaned at a young age and taken in by the Allan family of Richmond, Virginia.  He spent one semester at the University of Virginia but dropped out due to lack of funds. He then attended West Point Military Academy but left after [...]

April 8th One of our favorite authors, Cheryl Renee Herbsman inspired us to start one of our own Friday Fives. Check out her amazing blog. The way this works is each Friday morning we will post a prompt, question, topic, idea, etc that we will respond to. We will try to keep it general but [...]

When I started teaching poetry in my classroom, I also started collecting poetry for children. One of my favorite writers is Shel Silverstein. Actually, my first experience with Shel Silverstein dates back to when I was really little. I would spend part of my summer at my Granny’s house. Granny was a teacher so she [...]

I guess you think you know this story. You don’t. The real one’s much more gory… ~Opening lines of Cinderella by Roald Dahl   When most of us think of Roald Dahl, the first thing that comes to mind are his novels for children – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,  The BFG,  Matilda,  James and [...]

It’s Poetry Month! Here at Eve’s Fan Garden we have a lot of fun things planned, including a Poetry Slam. So get writing or reading, find your favorite poems, make a video and enter! Here is how the Slam will run: There are two categories for this event, Original Poetry and Poetry Reading. You are allowed [...]