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Day #2 of National Poetry Month 2023

A gift from my neighbors: Home made maple syrup, almost gone. 

4/2/23

sap flowing in trees
drips and drops into buckets—
a gift of sweetness. 

©Janice Scully 2023
Author janice.scullyPosted on April 2, 2023April 4, 2023Tags Haiku, maple surup, National Poetry Month

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About Me and Salt City Verse

My name is Janice Scully. Welcome! I live in Upstate N.Y., but as a child I grew up downstate in a small town not far from New York City.  My four siblings and I lived upstairs over our family restaurant.  Besides writing, reading and all libraries, I love to create things with fabric and yarn. I also love good food.

This site is about poetry for young people. It’s named after where I live, near Syracuse, N.Y. It used to be called the salt city because salt water bubbled up from the ground, sort of like where poems come from, somewhere deep. I hope to share my favorite poets and poems.

 

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About me and Salt City Verse

Welcome! My name is Janice Scully and I write for young people. I live near Syracuse, N.Y. which used to be known as Salt City. Salt water, once used to make valuable salt, bubbled up from the ground here, in a way, like poems bubble up from deep places. Here you will find posts about my favorite poets and poems.

I love reading, books, and all libraries. I also love fabric, yarn and food. The later, no doubt, comes from living as a child over my family’s busy restaurant.

I am a physician, but in 2010 earned an MFA in Writing for Children from Vermont College. I am grateful for the faculty and friends I met there and now focus on writing and supporting children’s literature.

janice.scully@gmail.com

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My poem, First Responder, is in this book, edited by Miranda Paul and illustrated by Marlena Myles. My thanks to both.

Thanku: Poems of Gratitude

Thank you, Bridget Magee for including my poems in your 2021 anthology:

My poem "Kick" has been included in THINGS WE DO, a 2021 anthology for ages 4-6, edited by Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell.

Thank you for visiting Salt City Verse!

My poem If A Snowstorm Came to Town can be found in this anthology by Irene Latham and Charles Waters.

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