POEMS FOR NEPHEWS

I thank Shari for allowing me to speak on program, sharing Greg's obituary with the gathering and reading some of his poignant poems. Near his casket were huge frames of pictures chronicling Greg's youth. I was in some of those pictures ...

Napoleon makes his way into my poems every now and then (I also had a pet blue and white budgerigar called Napoleon), because my fathr has read hundreds and hundreds of books about Napoleon. ... I have a lovely pack of nephews, nieces, godsons and friends' children now, so I'm always looking out for books to give them. Some of my favorites are George Saunders' The Very Loathsome Gappers of Frip, illustrated by Lane Smith, Jack Prelutsky's Scranimals, illustrated by Peter ...