Paschen is the editor of Poetry Speaks Who I Am: Poems of Discovery, Inspiration, Independence and Everything Else ..., a new book and CD compilation of poems that speak to life as a tween.

Here's to the power of poetry and place, and to the voices in all of us that long to be heard." I am from travelers and adventure from "Be seen, not heard!" from ritual and plainsong from England ...

his fifth-grade teacher asked her students to write a poem about themselves, beginning every few sentences with "I am." Benjamin couldn't wait to start writing, so he sat down at the kitchen table ...

Poetry Speaks Who I Am is a collection of poems intended not "for parents, for children, for classroom study or for required memorization," says... 'Who I Am': Poetry Not Wasted On The Young In ...