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• Betsy Franco
• Robin Hirsch
• Mary Ann Hoberman
• Paul B. Janeczko
• Alan Katz
• X. J. Kennedy
• Marilyn Singer
• Sonya Sones
Poet Roundtable with
Children's Poets
AuthorsOnTheWeb brought together 16
poets to discover why poetic expression is
so appealing to them and how they would
respond to those who find poetry more than
a little intimidating. The participants in the
Poetry Roundtable included Mary Jo Bang,
Billy Collins, Cornelius Eady, Jeffrey
Greene, Richard Matthews, Honor Moore,
Marge Piercy and Marc Woodworth who write for adult
audiences as well as Betsy Franco, Robin Hirsch, Mary Ann
Hoberman, Paul B. Janeczko, Alan Katz, X. J. Kennedy,
Marilyn Singer and Sonya Sones who write poems for children
and teens.
Betsy Franco
Betsy Franco
inspires trust in the
many people she
meets in the course
of her work as a
writer. As she
explains, "My
philosophy when
researching and
writing books has
always been to let adults, young
adults, and children speak for themselves as much as
possible."
With You Hear Me? and Things I Have to Tell You,
Betsy's purpose is to let teenagers speak for themselves.
Both anthologies, compelling in their honesty and
sometimes raw expressions of the many-layered
concerns of the writers, are uncensored. The sheer
honesty of the teens' submissions surprised Betsy as
she started her projects, and inspired her as she
continued in her mission. "The writers' openness made
me determined to try not to hit a false note in any aspect
of the books."
Betsy's three sons have been the inspiration of many of
her ideas. Today, she has published more than forty
books, including poetry, picture books, and nonfiction for
children and adults, and has also invented educational
toys. She finds that compiling anthologies of other writers'
work provides a nice balance with her own writing, and
allows her to collaborate with very interesting people. The
recipient of a B.A. in studio art from Stanford University,
and an M. Ed. from Lesley College in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, Betsy and of husband of more than thirty
years live in Palo Alto, California. Betsy's next project
(with Annette Ochoa, Indian Education Program
Specialist, and Traci Gourdine) is collecting the poems,
essays, and true stories of Native American teens and
young adults, ages 12 -22.
Interview on Teenreads.com
Candlewick Press
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Robin Hirsch
Robin Hirsch is a
former Oxford and
Fulbright scholar and
the author of the
acclaimed memoir
Last Dance at the
Hotel Kempinski.
The co-owner of the
renowned Cornelia
Street Café in
Greenwich Village, Mr. Hirsch lives in Brooklyn, New
York.
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Robin Hirsch's Website
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Mary Ann Hoberman
Mary Ann Hoberman
is a poet and the
critically acclaimed
author of many
books for children,
including the beloved
A House Is a House
for Me, which won a
National Book
Award. She was also the editor of the
poetry anthology My Song Is Beautiful: Poems and
Pictures in Many Voices. Ms. Hoberman gives readings
in libraries and schools, and her poems are included in
countless anthologies. She lives in Greenwich,
Connecticut.
Mary Ann Hoberman's Website
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Paul B. Janeczko
Paul Janeczko didn't
always plan to be a
poetry anthologist. "I
started out as a kid
in New Jersey who
had two major goals
in life,» he says. «To
survive one more
year of delivering
newspapers without being mauled by
Ike, the one-eyed, slobbering cur that lurked in the
forsythia bushes at the top of the hill, and to become
more than a weak-hitting, third-string catcher on our sorry
Little League team."
Though Paul Janeczko says he failed to achieve either of
these goals, he did reach college in one piece, and that's
when he discovered his love of poetry. "I became a poetry
junkie and read poetry the way some people watch soap
operas, work in their gardens, or follow the Red Sox."
Whenever he read good poetry, he was struck by
everything about it-its form, language, images, structure,
rhythm, voice, sound, feeling, and endless subjects ---
and wanted to share these possibilities with others. "I
want young people to see that poems are expressions of
human experience and are as different as people. I've
offered young readers poems about teeth, suicide,
lasagna, movies, swimming, insomnia, gluttons, dentists,
war victims, crows, cars, cats, and gnats, to name a
few."
After teaching high school English for twenty-two years,
Paul Janeczko resigned to become a visiting poet, and
has since worked with young writers in schools from
Maine to Alaska, as well as in international schools in
Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, and London. He has also edited
twenty poetry anthologies for young readers, many of
which have been named a Best Book of the Year by the
American Library Association.
Paul Janeczko's first book for Candlewick Press, Very
Best (Almost) Friends, was meant for anyone who has
ever known the fierce devotion of a very best friend.
»Friends are an important part of our lives,« he says. "I
wanted to share with kids some of the delicious poems
that celebrate this (almost) always wonderful experience."
A Poke in the I, an anthology of concrete poems (poems
that form shapes and pictures), was published in April
2001. Paul Janeczko hopes "this 'poke in the I' kicks
kids' imaginations into high gear and lets them run wild
writing their own concrete poems."
Paul Janeczko is a frequent presenter at workshops for
teachers, librarians, and young writers; has served as the
poetry editor of English Journal and as a member of the
Editorial Review Board of The New Advocate; and is a
member of NCTE's Books for You Committee. He also
writes reviews of audio books for Audiofile and writes the
»Kids' Poetry Workshop« column for Scholastic's
Instructor magazine. Paul B. Janeczko lives in Maine
with his wife and daughter.
Candlewick Press
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Alan Katz
Alan Katz has been a print and
television comedy writer for more than
twenty years. In addition to being a
multiple Emmy nominee for his work on
The Rosie O'Donnell Show and
Disney's Raw Toonage, he has written
for children's programming on
Nickelodeon, ABC television, and
Warner Bros. Animation's Taz-Mania.
He has also authored several adult humor books as well
as humorous essays for the New York Times and other
publications. Alan lives in Weston, Connecticut, with his
journalist wife, Rose, and their children, Simone, Andrew,
and twins Nathan and David.
Simon & Schuster
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X. J. Kennedy
X.J. Kennedy's
poems have
appeared in more
than one hundred
fifty textbooks and
anthologies and have
been aired on the
Today show, Good Morning America,
and Garrison Keillor's radio programs.
In recognition of his work for adults, Mr. Kennedy was the
first recipient of an international prize for light verse
awarded by the Academy of American Arts and Letters,
and he is the 2000 winner of the Award for Excellence in
Children's Poetry given by the National Council of
Teachers of English. He has published sixteen children's
books and, with his wife, Dorothy M. Kennedy,
anthologies Knock at a Star and Talking Like the
Rain. Formerly a professor of English at Tufts University,
X.J. Kennedy lives with his wife in Lexington,
Massachusetts. They have five large children and two
small grandchildren.
X. J. Kennedy's Website
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Marilyn Singer
Marilyn Singer is the
author of 10
collections of poetry,
including Monster
Museum and Turtle
in July, an NCTE
Notable Book and a
Reading Rainbow
selection. She lives
in New York.
Photo Credit to © Francene Keery.
Marilyn Singer's Website
Knopf
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Sonya Sones
Before becoming a
writer, Sonya Sones
taught animation,
worked as a
photographer, and
edited movies. Her
first book, Stop
Pretending: What
Happened When My Big Sister
Went Crazy, was a finalist for the Los
Angeles Times Book Prize and won a Christopher Award,
the Claudia Lewis Poetry Award, and the Myra Cohn
Livingston Poetry Award. It was also an ALA Best Book
for Young Adults and a Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant
Young Adult Readers.
Ms. Sones says, "In Stop Pretending, which is
autobiographical, there are some poems about my first
love. I had such a good time writing about those first
feelings of overwhelming passion that I knew I wanted to
delve into them more deeply. That's why I wrote this
book. These poems are definitely not autobiographical.
Especially not the embarrassing ones."
Ms. Sones lives with her family in California. She can be
reached at SonyaSones@aol.com.
Photo Credit to © Ava Tramer.
Sonya Sones Interview
Simon & Schuster
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