Poetry Friday: Illustrating Poetry
This week I’m considering an audio-visual approach to poetry. Listen to illustrator R. Gregory Christie discuss how he approached the creative task of illustrating children’s poems in The Palm of My Heart (Lee and Low, 1996). Next, have students illustrate…
Nikki Grimes is an author of fiction and poetry who has received five Coretta Scott King Book Award recognitions. In this column she discusses her writing process. Whether it’s her focus on character development, the story behind Bronx Masquerade (Penguin, 2001), or her personal experiences that influence her research and writing, Grimes’s insights reveal the dialectical nature of writing.