Jane Yolen

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Jane Yolen’s books and stories and poems have won the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, three World Fantasy Awards, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, two Golden Kite Awards, the Jewish Book Award and the Massachusetts Center for the Book award. She has also won the World Fantasy Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Science Fiction Writers of America’s Grand Master Award, and the Science Fiction Poetry Associations Grand Master Award (the three together she calls the Trifecta). Plus she has won both the Association of Jewish Libraries Award and the Catholic Libraries Medal. Also the DuGrummond Medal and the Kerlan Award, and the Ann Izard story-telling award at least three times. Six colleges and universities have given her honorary doctorates for her body of work, so–she jokingly says–you could call her Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Yolen though she can’t set a leg. However, she does warn about winning too many awards as one of them set her good coat on fire. If you meet her, you can ask about that! Source

Five Tips On Writing A Poem

  1. Look at the world through metaphor,

         seeing one tree in terms of another.

 

  1.  Let two words bump up against another

          Or seesaw on a single line.

 

  1. Tell the truth inside out

          Or on the slant.

 

  1. Remember that grammar can be a good friend

         And a mean neighbor.

 

  1. Let the poem rhyme in the heart,

         Though not always on the page.

Published:

1999

Length:

Shorty

Literary Movements:

Children's

Anthology Years:

2023

Themes:

Ars Poetica

Literary Devices:

Imagery

visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work

List Poem

A list poem features an inventory of people, places, things, or ideas organized in a particular way, usually numbered.

Personification

the attribution of human qualities to a non-human thing