In reverse chronological order:

• • A batch of essays from The Horn Book’s digital archives:
  • “On Originality in Children’s Poetry” by J. Patrick Lewis (May/June 2005)
  • “Writing poetry for children is a curious occupation: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath” by Lissa Paul (May/June 2005)
  • “Purposeful Poetry” by Susan Dove Lempke (May/June 2005)
  • “Audio Poetry: A Call to Words” by Kristi Elle Jemtegaard (May/June 2005)
  • “The Sand in the Oyster: Vetting the Verse Novel” by Patty Campbell (September/October 2004)
  • “On Poetry and Black American Poets” by Ashley Bryan (February 1979)

   

• The City, the Country, and the Road Between: The 2011 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry by Michael Heyman, Michael Joseph, and Joseph Thomas. The Lion and the Unicorn 35 (2011): 296-312 (Feb. 2012).

• Wordplay: The Case for Ludic Poetry by J. Patrick Lewis. Hunger Mountain: the VCFA journal of the arts (Jan. 2012).

• The Lamb Was Sure to Go Ironic by Steven Withrow (PACYA, Jan. 2012).
• Ten Trends in Poetry for Young People in 2011 by Sylvia Vardell (PACYA, Dec. 2011).
• Sound and Rhyme in Ted Hughes’s Poems for Children by Steven Withrow (PACYA, Dec. 2011).
• Nine Notions without a Resolution by Steven Withrow (PACYA, Nov. 2011).
• What It Means to Be a Poetry Advocate, or How a Poet Is Like an Egret by Steven Withrow (PACYA, Sep. 2011).
• Book Review of Morag Styles et al.’s Poetry and Childhood by Joseph Thomas. The Lion and the Unicorn 35.1 (2011): 93-101.
• A Speculative Account (with Notes) of the Development and Initial Deployments of Shel Silverstein’s Persona, Uncle Shelby by Joseph Thomas. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. 36.1 (2011): 25-46.
• Can Children’s Poetry Matter? by J. Patrick Lewis. Hunger Mountain: the VCFA journal of the arts (2010).
• It’s (Not) All Small Stuff: The 2010 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry by Joseph Thomas, Michael Heyman, and Angela Sorby. The Lion and the Unicorn 34.3 (2010): 354-63.
• Toward a Digital Poetics for Children by Richard Flynn. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 35.4 (Winter 2010): 418-26.
• The Fear of Poetry by Richard Flynn. Chapter 5 of The Cambridge Companion to Children’s Literature, ed. Grenby and Immel. Cambridge University Press, 2009: 76-90.
• Lively Rigor: The 2009 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry by Joseph Thomas, Michael Heyman, and Angela Sorby. The Lion and the Unicorn 33.3 (2009): 376-96.
• Poetry for Children. What’s the Word. Hosted by Sally Placksin and featuring Joseph Thomas, Lissa Paul, and Rod McGillis. Program number 271. 3 Mar. 2009.
• The Wonderland of Children’s Poetry by Joseph Thomas. Parents’ Choice (www.parents-choice.org; 2008).
• from brain all the way to heart: The 2008 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry by Richard Flynn, Angela Sorby, and Joseph Thomas. The Lion and the Unicorn 32.3 (2008): 344-56. 264-281.
• Messages in a Bottle: The 2007 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry by Richard Flynn, Angela Sorby, and Joseph Thomas. The Lion and the Unicorn 31.3 (2007): 264-81.
• It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing): The 2006 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry by Richard Flynn, Joseph Thomas, and JonArno Lawson. The Lion and the Unicorn 30.3 (2006): 383-97.
• Reappraising Uncle Shelby by Joseph Thomas. The Horn Book Magazine. May/June 2005: 283-93.
• It Could Be Verse: The 2005 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry by Richard Flynn, Kelly Hager, and Joseph Thomas. The Lion and the Unicorn 29.3 (2005): 427-41.
• Child Poets and the Poetry of the Playground by Joseph Thomas. Children’s Literature Spring 32 (2004): 152-77.
• ‘Levels and Opposites’ in Randall Jarrell’s The Bat-Poet by Joseph Thomas. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 27.1 (2002): 16-26.
• Mel Glenn and Arnold Adoff: The Poetics of Power in the Adolescent Voice-lyric by Joseph Thomas. Style 35.3 (2001): 486-97.
• Can Children’s Poetry Matter? by Richard Flynn. The Lion and the Unicorn 17.1 (1993): 37-44.
• From Trudeau’s Garden by Lee Bennett Hopkins. Elementary English 44.6 (1967): 613-5.

We are working toward creating a searchable database of essays and audiovisual materials that examine poetry for and by young people from critical, historical, pedagogical, and/or craft-oriented perspectives.

Please contact stevenwithrow(at)gmail(dot)com with questions or with materials for consideration.