Tag Archives: poetry

Happy National Poetry Day

It’s National Poetry Day and this year’s theme is “work” so in the spirit of this here is a haiku: Is a poem work? A poet would say yes, though poems feed the soul. Please feel free to contribute a haiku or other poem on this year’s subject of “work”

News from Alison Brackenbury

I have the immense privilege of updating the website of the poet Alison Brackenbury. I love her poems – and a new one appears on her website every two months. She’s let me know that “6.25”, a poem from her forthcoming book “Singing in the Dark”, will appear in The

Plagiarism and Kids on the Net

I was discussing plagiarism software with some colleagues. One said that “one of the most successful techniques is simply to input a whole suspicious sentence into Google in quotes and see what comes up.” I quite agreee. I do this when I am suspicious about submissions to Kids on the