Perry Nodelman

The fallen idol, according to a birthday card produced by my eldest son many, many decades ago, when we were both much younger and I had lots more hair.

A Tyger in the Store Writing Poetry as a Goal

A Tyger in the Store
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Showing the Meaning or Truth of Something
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Imaginary Gardens with Illustrated Toads in Them And now for something completely different: having said as much as I can think of saying right now about the Ambleside Online approach to poetry, I’m going to turn my attention to a different topic: i...

Imaginary Gardens with Illustrated Toads in Them
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Ambleside for Older Children and Adolescents Years 5 and Up

Ambleside for Older Children and Adolescents

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Ambleside for Older Children and Adolescents Years 5 and Up

Ambleside for Older Children and Adolescents

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Oh, Wait, It Wasn't the Complete Works After All: More Works to Add to the Works

A Fly Sends a Letter to a Bee Adult Poems in The Works

Emily Dickinson Writes Children’s Poetry open.substack.com/pub/perrynod...

The Ambleside and The Works While I first encountered The Ambleside Book of Verse as a young student in Canada, it was published in London in the UK.

The Ambleside and the Works
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The Playground Goes to School A Closer Look at The Works

The Playground Goes to School
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More on Learning about Poetry After my childhood experience of poetry and after my time as an undergrad English major studying it and then as a teacher of literature teaching it came my years as a parent sharing literature with my...

Experiencing poetry with my children. perrynodelman.substack.com/p/more-on-le...

My childhood in poetry.https://open.substack.com/pub/perrynodelman/p/learning-about-poetry?r=2hbznk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

The Ghost of Poetry Why is so little poetry for children being published? In the light of the relative scarcity of poetry, that questions might better be replaced by its opposite: why is poetry for children being publish...

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What is a treasury? As many of their titles reveal, then, editors of anthologies of poetry—and especially anthologies of poetry for children—like to identify what they are offering as “treasuries. ” Now I’d like to explo...

What is a treasury? A new post about children and poetry. perrynodelman.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...

Yet more about The Echoing Green on my Children and Poetry Substack: Cecil Day-Lewis and William Blake
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The Echoing Green Edited By Cecil Day-Lewis

A new post on my Children and Poetry
Substack. This one is about one particular anthology. open.substack.com/pub/perrynod...

The Echoing Green Edited By Cecil Day-Lewis

A new post on my Children and Poetry Substack, this time about one specific anthology. open.substack.com/pub/perrynod...

What I’m Planning to Do I began working on this project some months ago by gathering poetry anthologies--mostly collections identified as being for children, but also some identified as being intended for families, and a var...

A new post on my Children and Poetry Substack. open.substack.com/pub/perrynod...

Children and Poetry | Perry Nodelman | Substack An exploration of what children are, what poetry is, and what children's poetry might be. Click to read Children and Poetry, by Perry Nodelman, a Substack publication. Launched a day ago.

I’m beginning a Substack exploring what poetry for children is. You can subscribe here. It’s free! Please pass the link on to anyone else who might be interested, and please feel to agree or disagree in the comments section of the Substack page. open.substack.com/pub/perrynod...

College Is an Education in Bullshit The value of universities is in revealing how they themselves suck.

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Representations of Art and Art Museums in Children’s Picture Books What happens when the assumptions and practices of museum curators and art educators intersect with the assumptions and practices of publishing for children?Thi…

I interrupt this silence to report that my forthcoming book is now being advertised on the publisher’s website. www.bloomsbury.com/ca/represent...

Also, apparently, some things dark, ugly, stupid, and horrific.

The Fedex people are as good at delivery photographs as they are at numerous other aspects of delivery.

Much to my surprise, this book is not centrally concerned with what the Nodelmans have done in recent years.

Did Sexton change the line at some point? Did Kumin? Or is the line in Kumin's edition the one that's an error? Or what would a prospector for golf be, exactly? Can anyone help me with this, or lead me to somewhere or someone who might?

"he is the old prospector for gold, with secret dreams of God-heads and fish heads." But then this PDF lacks most of its front matter and all the publishing info, so I don't know its date or anything about how the text was edited.

I can't make any sense of that, so I was pleased to find one version of the poem in a PDF on the Academia website of Sexton's Complete Poems edited by Maxine Kumin that reads, far more understandably,

In one of the lines in In her poem "The Lobster" as found in many places on the Internet, Anne Sexton says that "he is the old prospector for golf, with secret dreams of God-heads and fish heads." A golf prospector?

A Scottish poem about working in an art gallery. Published in The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry, edited by Maurice Lindsay and Lesley Duncan (Edinburgh University Press, 2005).

Can anyone help me to understand the logic of this sequence of two items in the ingredient list of the recipe for the lentil and sweet potato casserole we had tonight for dinner?
-4 cups low-sodium vegetable stock
-2 teaspoons kosher salt, plus more to taste