My First Twitter Chat is tomorrow, April 30, at 8 PM EST & a POETRY MONTH LINK FOR YOU!

I'm thrilled to be guest-posting today at the awesome CLEAR EYES, FULL SHELVES blog (yes, Friday Night Lights fans, that title is for YOU!) where I'm blogging (okay, ranting a little) about WHY VERSE NOVELS CAN BE ABOUT ANYTHING.

ALSO, tomorrow (Wednesday) evening at 8 PM Eastern Time (5 Pacific), I'll be doing my first TWITTER CHAT @VikingChildrens with my editor, Kendra Levin. We'll talk about THE SOUND OF LETTING GO, the writing process, the journey to publication and other fun stuff.

I hope you'll join me at #TSOLG! 

Bring questions, comments, or pictures of your pets reading my novels. Here's one for a start...

Winding down April & Winding Up Verse Novel Week!

What a month! I've been to my regional SCBWI spring conference, hosted family from the east coast, participated in Autism Awareness and National Poetry Month programs, eaten way too much chocolate...and there are still three more days of April to go! So, despite feeling a bit overwhelmed, I'm going to roll up my sleeves, open my window to let in some fresh, spring air, and get back to the keyboard. May? Bring it!

BUT FIRST...Head on over to Clear Eyes, Full Shelves to learn more about the upcoming awesome that is VERSE NOVEL WEEK. It begins April 28 and features cool blog posts, a special podcast and more! I'll be guest posting on the 29th.

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#POETRYMONTH and JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH…

In addition to all the other fun (and spring showers), April is JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH. 

In honor of JAM, here are a couple of verses from THE SOUND OF LETTING GO...

There are more guys than girls in the jazz world,

next to no lady trumpeters (oh, there are a few).

But it doesn’t matter because, for me, jazz trumpet is all about one guy:

Miles Davis.

He made this famous album in 1959

called Kind of Blue,

which is kind of, always,

how I feel.

That album gets into your bones,

goes and goes;

starts, hesitates, reaches out, feels

for the music, the sound, the thing you want to change.

Always grasping for the unattainable makes you

kind of excited,

kind of sorry.

c 2014 Stasia Ward Kehoe

all rights reserved

The Poetry Oscars!

Okay, not exactly, but don’t you wish you could be at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC tonight for this…

Yes, you see Tina Fey, Patrick Stewart and Julianna Margulies on that GUEST READER LIST OF AWESOME! Here's what I'd wear if I were going...

Heck yeah, why not red? (It's J. Crew, btw)

Now you're curious, right? Here's the link for more info: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/92