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Alexander, Kwame
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Nikaido, Deanna
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Sweet, Melissa
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HarperCollins 2023
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English
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9780063309937
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Kwame Alexander. (2023). How to Write a Poem. HarperCollins.

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Kwame Alexander. 2023. How to Write a Poem. HarperCollins.

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Kwame Alexander. How to Write a Poem. HarperCollins, 2023.

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waiting for spring.

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Begin

with a question

like an acorn

waiting for spring.

From this first stanza, readers are invited to pay attention—and to see that paying attention itself is poetry. Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido's playful text and Melissa Sweet's dynamic, inventive artwork are paired together to encourage readers to listen, feel, and discover the words that dance in the world around them—poems just waiting to be written down.

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