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Effie Lee Newsome

Writing Forewords for Special Books

One of my favorite opportunities as an author is writing forewords for special books, and I especially enjoy working with publishers who are...

When I began to introduce my children to poetry as a daily practice within our homeschool, I was struck by the homogeneity of the sweet images...

Effie Lee Newsome was one of the first African American poets who primarily published poems for children. She was the author of one volume of...