April is National Poetry Month. To learn about it visit Poets.org
One of my favorite poets is American poet, Valerie Worth. She was born in 1933 and died in 1994 from cancer. She is best known for her “’small poems” for children. Worth wrote about ordinary things using simple free-verse. My favorite of her poems is “Back Yard” where she describes the sun moving around the yard on a lazy summer day. It is in the book, all the small poems and fourteen more. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994)
