The rhyming chart I made up for myself a few years ago has turned out to be extremely useful.
Now at About Writing & Drawing you can get a printout—just click on the chart itself. I keep one on my desk, one taped to the steering wheel of my car, and always one in a pocket—you [...]

While I’ve been working on “I Did It Because…”, an upcoming selection of those poems of mine that kids have liked best (and a couple of new ones), I’ve also had to write some pages about How A Poem Happens.
For those, I’ve been looking up a lot of poetry-for-kids websites. Some of them are FANTASIC!
Here [...]