11:37

Camino Gear - Rain Jacket, Poncho, Giant Jacket? (Outdoor Research vs. Altus vs Frogg Togg)

07:24

Camino Gear - Hiking skirt?

09:20

Camino Gear - Umbrella or Hat for sun?

05:46

Camino Gear - Tips for pilgrims with glasses!

03:42

Camino Gear - Water Bottle

10:07

Camino Gear - The Backpack (0.86 lbs!, $20)

12:01

"To a Daughter Leaving Home" by Linda Pastan -- one of my favorite poems!

08:41

Exploring "The Good Life," a poem by Traci Smith

08:20

Understanding "Introduction to Poetry" -- poem by Billy Collins

26:31

An American Interpretation of a Romanian Poem

19:47

Exploring Edwidge Danticat's "A Wall of Fire Rising"

08:46

Understanding "Observation Post #798" by Brian Turner

07:21

Understanding "Jorge The Church Janitor Finally Quits" by Martín Espada

09:02

Understanding "Digging" by Seamus Heaney

11:58

Three Elements of Tim O'brien's style in "The Things They Carried"

09:47

Understanding "Oranges" by Gary Soto

10:48

Understanding "The Shipfitter's Wife" by Dorianne Laux

03:20

Pura Belpré Honor Book Acceptance Speech for THE OTHER HALF OF HAPPY!

14:56

Understanding WH Auden's "Musée de Beaux Arts"

16:00

Creative non-fiction and how to write it, an intro

06:12

Author reads chapter 1, The Other Half of Happy (grades 4-8, especially)

19:00

How to Write a Novel -- character, structure, and tips in 20 minutes!

01:10

Reaction to winning a Pura Belpré Award 2020 - Rebecca Balcárcel

14:11

Understanding "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by WELSHMAN Dylan Thomas

10:09

Understanding "Saturday at the Canal" by Gary Soto

02:03

THE OTHER HALF OF HAPPY -- Find out what it's about!

01:45

Booktalk -- THE OTHER HALF OF HAPPY

11:40

Understanding "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy

07:58

Understanding "The Secretary Chant" by Marge Piercy

27:38

Understanding "Home Burial" by Robert Frost

20:21

How I Got My Literary Agent

12:03

Why Get an Agent?

14:31

Yeat's "A Prayer for My Daughter," part 2 of 2

15:58

Understanding Yeats's "A Prayer for My Daughter," Part 1 of 2

13:43

Understanding "Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost

17:08

Understanding John Donne's "Batter My Heart, Three-personed God"

13:21

Understanding "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

17:47

Understanding "I taste a liquor never brewed"

08:16

Understanding "Success is counted sweetest"

15:12

Understanding Emerson's "The Poet," part 1

15:38

Understanding "The Tyger"

11:12

Literary Devices of "To His Coy Mistress"

15:31

Understanding "To His Coy Mistress," part 2

10:40

Understanding "To His Coy Mistress," part 1

10:22

Understanding "The Gift" by Li-Young Lee

09:20

Understanding "The World is Too Much With Us" by Wordsworth

10:23

Understanding Donne's "Death be not proud"

09:00

Understanding "Those Winter Sundays"

09:40

Understanding "The Road Not Taken"

09:32

Understanding "Blackberry Eating" by Galway Kinnell

12:39

Understanding Tennyson's "Ulysses"

09:19

"Lady of Shalott," Part 4

08:27

"Lady of Shalott," Part 3

11:57

"The Lady of Shalott," Part 2

09:04

"The Lady of Shalott," Part 1

11:04

Lady of Shalott - Interpretations

09:28

Adding Swerves to Your Poem

12:12

Making Your Poem an Experience for the Reader

11:34

Write a Villanelle

11:58

Write a Great Personal Essay