Sending My Little Ones Off to School

Two poems from Mud Cakes have been selected for inclusion in several forthcoming textbooks. I just signed an agreement for “Amelia Avenue” to appear in Welcome to My World: A Writing Course. Co-authored by Theresa Malphrus Welford and Martha C. Pennington, the book is under contract with Equinox Publishing and is due out in 2013 (hardback, $90; paperback, $35). Pre-order information is already available here .

Ms. Welford and Ms. Pennington also plan to include “Amelia Avenue” in another textbook, Writing & Place, while “Cereal Prizes” (oh, how I loved those Dig ‘Em spinner tops!) is slated to appear as a model poem for an exercise/assignment in their third forthcoming text, Creative Approaches to Writing Essays.

Today I am humbled by this news, and I hope these small poems, if nothing else, encourage students and readers to stay true to their own voice and what inspires them. And to know that it’s not always the prize that counts, but the digging.

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