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    Going on a Picnic: Poetry Especially for Children
    Going on a Picnic: Poetry Especially for Children
    Going on a Picnic: Poetry Especially for Children
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    Going on a Picnic: Poetry Especially for Children

    By Michael R. Collings

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    These twenty-one poems, written with a younger audience in mind, recall special moments of childhood--moments of discovery, of excitement, of joy, of learning. All are designed to appeal to the child in the reader...regardless of age.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael R. Collings
    Release dateOct 1, 2010
    ISBN9781452349695
    Going on a Picnic: Poetry Especially for Children
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    Michael R. Collings

    I am a professor emeritus of English at Pepperdine University in Malibu CA (although my retirement home is in southwestern Idaho). During my twenty-seven years at Pepperdine I taught everything from Freshman Composition to Advanced Grammar to Business Writing; from Survey of English Literature to Milton and the Epic; from Introduction to Creative Writing to Senior Seminars in Writing.Along the way, I discovered the joys of writing, not just to meet requirements for graduate degrees or to insure tenure, but for myself--saying things in a way that might make my thoughts more interesting for readers and thereby invite them back into the books I talked about. Most of my academic writing relates to authors I love: John Milton, the great 17th-century English poet, on the one hand; Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Piers Anthony, and additional science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers on the other.But my real love now is creative writing: novels, short stories, and most especially poetry. My offerings range from the three-line haiku found in Tissue Promises to a 6,500-line epic, The Nephiad. And everything in between.Please let me know what you think at my website: http://www.starshineandshadows.com/

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      Going on a Picnic - Michael R. Collings

      Going on a Picnic

      Poetry Especially for Children

      Michael R. Collings

      Published by Michael R. Collings at Smashwords

      Copyright 2010 Michael R. Collings

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