{"id":2400,"date":"2007-08-04T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:27:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:27:03","slug":"poetry-friday-late-but-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2400","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: Late, But Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re here!<\/p>\n

SCBWI<\/a> is the usual surreal collage of sights and sounds and impressions — as usual, the weekend is going too fast, and I am a little worried by the number of photographers snapping my non-photogenic self, but our presentation was mostly coherent, the slide projector didn’t break, and nobody died. Pretty good for a first year. There was high drama putting almost a thousand people in a low-ceilinged lobby against finding each other — it more of a challenge than it should have been (someday I must tell you about blogger Big A, little a’s<\/i> …allegedly black outfit and turquoise sandals which never materialized…), but all’s well that ends, right? As for our presentation — We were REALLY EXCITED when Tamora Pierce<\/a> dropped by to sit in on our session — it was all I could do not to point and squeal! But she asked questions about the 48 Hour Book Challenge<\/i> and we hope to see her ’round the kidlitosphere soon.Don’t miss the Guardian’s short piece on Phillip Pullman<\/a>, and his recent in-depth interview in the UK Literary Review<\/a>. Pullman talks about the deeper questions of religion in Lyra’s story — his follow up to His Dark Materials<\/i> will be …unusual, to say the least.And now, my short but well-loved poem for Poetry Friday. I won’t even bother linking it to everyone else’s, since it’s so late, but it is a poem best read in a laconic and mildly amused voice, the way it was first read to me.<\/p>\n

This Is Just To Say
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox<\/p>\n

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast.<\/p>\n

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold.<\/p>\n

— William Carlos Williams<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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