Just in time for the holidays from Poetic License Press...

A Midnight Snack

poems for late night reading

Trouble sleeping?  Take a poem to bed.  A poem won't start snoring before you've nodded off.  In fact, poems will stay up with you as long as you like.  And if you wake in the middle of the night unable to fall back asleep, shake awake a poem to keep you company - it will be happy to oblige.  So, have a midnight snack with these tewnty-seven tireless poets who have gathered together from the parabolic parameter of the Earth to get you through the night!

Poems by Judy Adams, Susan Auld, Mary Jo Balistreri, Cathy Barber, Jane Blanchard, Robert Cote, Albert DeGenova, Charlotte Digregorio, Jennifer Dotson, Dina Elenbogen, Gail Goepfert, Susan Gundlach, Robert Klein Engler, Arlyn Miller, Wilda Morris, Deborah Nodler Rosen, Carol Kantor, Stella Padnos-Shea, Marcia Pradzinski, Jenene Ravesloot, Marjorie Rissman, Charles Rossiter, Jo Stewart, Maureen Tolman Flannery, Ruan Wright.  Edited by Arlyn Miller.

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If poetry had a motto it would be: Fully human! Fully alive! - a philosophy I share.  I'm Arlyn Miller.  I fell in love with poetry as a child reading Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses and have been smitten ever since.  I consider myself an ambassador of poetry and of the written word in all its incarnations.
 
I am a published poet, journalist, and essayist.  I'm also a voracious reader of just about anything, but especially poetry, memoir, and other non-fiction.
 
Through Poetic License, Inc. I teach a broad range of creative writing workshops to kids, teens, and adults - on my own and in collaboration with other teachers, writers, and artists.  I've worked with thousands of people in schools, libraries, book stores, writing conferences, camps, private homes, houses of worship, and other community settings.

I am also the founder and Senior Editor of Poetic License Press, an affiliate of Poetic License, Inc.  Poetic License Press publishes writing that is authentic, accessible, and engaging.  I also serve as a juror and host for poetry readings and a judge for poetry contests.

My mission, destiny, and passion is to live a writer's life with poetic license: the leeway to bend, stretch, and occasionally suspend the rules in the service of creative expression.  To that end, I write, read, learn, teach, publish, collaborate, facilitate, conspire, inspire, encourage, support, nurture and cajole in the service of creative written expression.