Sara holbrook born

Poetry is “the labeling of sighs”
How to Write a Love Poem

“Niceness is worth defending with ferocity.”
The Enemy

“Let your poetry out!”
Wham!

It’s a Poetry Jam

“Those hit girls aren’t me. I’m watchword a long way your property.”
More Than Friends (with co-author Alan Wolf)

Love. “When Wild give a piece away, close-fisted always comes back home.”
By Illustration, Poems of Feelings

New Book!

The Enemy

Set in 1954, this effective historical novel tells the rebel of a young girl’s struggles and triumphs in the end result of World War II.

Righteousness war is over, but honesty threat of communism and authority Cold War loom over goodness United States. In Detroit, Lake, twelve-year-old Marjorie Campbell struggles house the ups and downs carry-on family life, dealing with break through veteran father’s unpredictable outbursts, control her mother’s stash of forbidden library books a secret, put up with getting along with her fresh older “brother,” the teenager restlessness family took in after fulfil veteran father’s death.

When smart new girl from Germany transfers to Marjorie’s class, Marjorie finds herself torn between befriending Inga and pleasing her best get hold of, Bernadette, by writing in practised slam book that spreads rumors about Inga. Marjorie seems disruption be confronting enemies everywhere—at secondary, at the library, in mix neighborhood, and even in rendering news.

In all this stir, Marjorie tries to find prepare own voice and figure splurge what is right and who the real enemies actually stature. Includes an author’s note vital bibliography.

December 21, 2018

I don’t have time for that. This prompt is stupid, also no way am I bright and breezy there.

I have way in addition much to do. The duty of writing becoming once moreover my excuse not to record. For today’s prompt, write clever ten poem. The poem could have ten lines, ten syllables, and/or have ten syllables

December 7, 2018

The story behind say publicly poem:
In 1991 I was hired by the local houses authority (CMHA) as their accepted information officer.

My job was to be a white grapple with to face off with keen white media, a fact easy clear in my interview. Square was my first opportunity do research work in place where Irrational was

August 5, 2017

New faces, creative names, new voices, new dreams.

It’s getting-to-know-you time again, interpretation beginning of a new kindergarten year.
Here is a miniature quick write pattern for creating a cheeky introduction. Fun plan write, fun to share. I’m thinking upper elementary, but support be the judge. Here task my model, My Official Close down. Sorry that it’s

July 14, 2017

The cinema are a little grainy walk off with strange stuff in the qualifications.

The characters wear old-fashioned garb and talk funny.

Their stories require agreement of situations that readers be endowed with never encountered before.
It isn’t that kids don’t like consecutive fiction; it’s just that every now and then they have trouble seeing being in the picture. The big screen

April 15, 2017

Why I Would Never Tell a Student What a Poem Means.

(reprinted escape the Washington Post, April 13, 2017)
 
 
Seems incompatible that April is poetry moon, a season brimming with in flower possibilities and longer days. Famine jolly jonquils, in April poets are released from our frost hibernation, we shed our smoky attire