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Audacity
Historical Novels-in-Verse for Young Readers
by, Jill Swenson
April 4, 2017

April is National Poetry Month. Do people hate poetry? According to novelist and poet Ben Lerner, yes. His new book, The Hatred of Poetry, argues we are always looking for our humanity in poetry and find mere poems instead. There are three reasons why I haven’t picked up an epic poem for decades. 1. The Epic of Gilgamesh. 2. The Illiad. 3. The Odyssey. My… [Read More]

Filed Under: Audacity, Jacqueline Woodsen, Loving v. Virginia, Margarita Engle, Marilyn Nelson, Melanie Crowder, novel-in-verse, Patricia Hruby Powell, Silver People, Skila Brown, To Stay Alive
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