Seeing the Blue Between: Advice and Inspiration for Young Poets

Paul B. Janeczko. Candlewick Press (MA), $18.99 (144pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-0881-1

""Love words play with them find the meanings of those you don't know,"" writes poet Michael Dugan. He, along with 32 other poets including Ralph Fletcher, Douglas Florian, Naomi Shihab Nye and Jane Yolen offer words of encouragement and a few poems of their own in Seeing the Blue Between: Advice and Inspiration for Young Poets, ed. by Paul B. Janeczko. ""Notes on Contributors"" complete the handsome volume. (Apr.)

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