Fear Less Poetry in Perilous Times Joe Hill helping little ones learn rhyme

helping little ones learn rhyme

With striking prose and an inquisitive eye cast back on mythology

empty sea when Earth was young

the pioneers who shook off convention

Fear Less Poetry in Perilous Times Joe Hill helping little ones learn rhymeDrawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as inaccessible, irrelevant, or intimidating. She argues that poetry is rooted in fundamentally human qualities innate to our capacities to love, dream, question, and cultivate community. Lifting the veil on her own creative process, Smith shows us how reading and writing poetry allows us to better