New Poem: Top three stories of the 2012 MLB off-season, inexplicably...
Top three stories of the 2012 MLB off-season, inexplicably presented in limerick form by Ed DeCaria “Darvish: Yu Dallas-Bound Darlin’!” “Miami: New Home of the Marlin!” You dominate headlines (and...
View ArticleMadness! Writing 126 New Children’s Poems in 21 Days
“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.” — Aristotle Every March, like many Americans, I cannot help but get caught up in college basketball’s year end championship tournament. Even if...
View ArticleNew Poem: Skinny
Skinny by Ed DeCaria I slipped right through a pavement crack while strolling down the street, and landed in a sewer pipe that smells like rotting feet. It’s damp and dark so I’ll just park right here...
View ArticleMadness! Poetry Preview: 14-flibbertigibbet vs. 3-crunch
EDIT: Since visitors of Think Kid, Think! are having so much fun voting, I’m resurrecting this matchup to give people a chance to read two more poems (I’m not just a webmaster, I write poetry too!) and...
View ArticleNew Poem: Hamilton v. Baltimore
Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers tied a major league record by hitting four home runs in one game on Tuesday night, statistically one of the rarest feats in baseball. It happens about once per...
View ArticleAnnouncement: My Poetry Debut at The Hardball Times
Today I made my debut writing baseball-related poetry for a popular sabermetric website, The Hardball Times. My poems will appear on their THT Live section as I write them. Poems are cross-posted to...
View ArticleNew Poem: Maybe I Should Have Waited 30 Minutes Like She Told Me To
It’s Poetry Friday in the Kidlitosphere! Thank you to AmyLV at The Poem Farm for hosting this week. Now officially summer, public pools across America will be opening for what seems like an...
View ArticleNew Poem: The Fort Pitt Tunnel
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is famous for (among other things) its three intersecting rivers and the vibrant yellow bridges that cut across them. I lived for five years in that strange little sliver of...
View ArticlePop-Up Poetry Competition
Every week in the kidlitosphere, dozens of poets and poetry aficionados gather to share their latest poems, inspirations, interviews, reviews, news, and more. It so happens that I am hosting the...
View ArticleNew Poem: Flag At Half-Mast
At my baseball poetry outpost, The Hardball Times, I just published a new concrete poem dedicated to Marvin Miller, legendary MLB Players Association leader who passed away on Tuesday, 11/27/2012, at...
View ArticleNew Poem: National Cat Day
It’s been a looooong time since I’ve written a regular blog or posted a poem. Trying to get back to that. When I found out that today was National Cat Day on my way to work this morning, I couldn’t...
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