J. Patrick Lewis, former U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate has joined forces with National Geographic to create two stunningly beautiful anthologies.  The anthologies share rich collections of poems; some that may already familiar to you, as well as other poems that are newly written.  Each page is a feast for your eyes, as well as music for your ears.  One page will lead to the next and on to the next and the next.  Each time I  read from one of these book I feel a little breathless.  I can’t seem to read and look fast enough.  I think you’ll feel the same way.

Read and enjoy.  Savor each gorgeous page.  At the end of the books there are tips for writing your own poems and an explanation of how different forms of poetry can be written.  Now that we’ve explored photography with Mrs. Wyman, maybe we could make our own anthology of gorgeous photographs and wonderful words.

What do you think about that?