Hi everyone,
The fall edition of Missouri Reader is out. Here’s a link to it. https://viewer.joomag.com/fall-2023-missouri-reader-november-2023/0021475001664737499?short&
Among the excellent articles you’ll find are one by LAURA ROBB and one by MARY JO FRESCH. I’m in there, too, with a one-page introduction about when I was named the state’s poet laureate, and also in an interview of Laura, TIM RASINSKI, and me about our new book, PROMOTE READING GAINS WITH DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION, as well as a video of a recent interview of us by SAM BOMMARITO. Here’s the link to that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc-wL8RzgzQ . If this doesn’t work here, copy and past on Google and it will.
In this issue we bid fond farewell and thanks to Sam and GLENDA NUGENT, who have co-edited the journal for the last seven years., and welcome the new team of ELIZABETH WALLINGTON and JENNIFER BOTELLO. I’m happy to say that they are dedicating the upcoming March 2024 issue of The Reading Journal to poetry. An interview with GEORGIA HEARD and me will be in it and the issue, I’m told, will recognize my naming as Missouri Poet Laureate. I’m delighted!