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I have to memorize a poem written by some one other than me to say in front of the class. I would like to say your poem on luck. Would that be okay with you? Thank you. 
MacKenzie
4th Grade
Cool Spring Elem

Hi, I am Miranda and I would like to use some of your poems for a school assignment. The assignment is to create ten poems by yourself and then get 10 from other authors, so far your site is the most helpful and has the most fun poems. If I were to use a poem of yours I would use either Miss Picky or Batgirls Disgrace.

I would like to use 2 poems at part of a summer reading program promotion in elementary schools: "Watch Out" and "Auntie Ethel, the Extraterrestial".
I would definately attribute the poems and give your website.
I work at Wetaskiwin Public Library, Alberta, Canada. Lynne Revill

I am in 8th grade in New Jersey, USA and would like to include two of your poems in my class project anthology of funny school poems. Only one copy will be made. If I receive your permission, my teacher requires title of the 'complete work', the original date of publication (web publication?). Anyway, I would like to include the correct credits in my bibliography. Here are the two poems: "School Report" and "Cross Country". I hope you can help. Thank you!  Alex Cambell

Hey   Next week at school we have a competition
We have to act out a poem and use expression and that kind of stuff.
we didnt have to write our own poem.
I had one of your poems in mind called how to succesfully persuade your mum to give your parents to give you more pocketmoney.
I think that it would be really fun to act out and i would most likely get a good mark.
it would really help i have another poem ready justin case you dont let me,\. but its no where nearly as good as yours. 
thankz  Jodi

I want to use your Predictable poem in my poetry anthology. I won't use it for anything bad, I just need it for my poetry anthology assignment at school.

hi im alyssa and I would like to ask for your permission to use one of your poems. I would only use this poem once but i havent decided which one yet i like them all. I love to write poetry but i can never seem to write just out of the blue. so what im getting at is that i have to write a poem for a portfolio and maybe instead of using one of your you could giv me an idea to write one. my portfolio is about astronomy and i cant think of anyhting so if you could please write me back with your help that would be SO great! thank you

I go to pattonville heights middle school in st.louis missouri 

I really enjoyed reading Predictable because, when my little brother comes home after school, mom always asks him those same questions. He alway's say's he can't remember. The only thing I though didn't work was at the end when it said Can't remember, because it didn't rhyme with anything.

NAME: Andrea Martinez
I am new to this site but i love all your peoms

NAME: Kim
Hey man,your poems are depressing and you should really try to write about happy things, because man why are you talking about death and shit,  So buck up partner!!!

Dear Andrea
Thank you for letting me use your poems in my space project.
They have made my project a little bit special. My teacher liked them and I have put your website and name in my thankyou page.

from Shauma, ( Knightswood Primary School, Glasgow. )

Court Fields Community School, Wellington, Somerset TA21 8SW.
I would like to use your poem entitled "School Report" on the back of our Y11 Leavers' Book.
Please contact me if this is not acceptable.
Thank you,
Neil Piper

Hi I am fron Bastrop Middle School/I have no organisation i am just an 8th grade student
I was wondering if I culd use some poems for my webmastering project I'll ad your copy right stuff because that is the only proper way THANKS!!! Joshua Halliday

NAME: Vongai Makamure

i am a 13 year girl in Zimbabwe. i learn at Arundel School in Harare. i read your poems and i think your poems are very funny and excting. i only read a few of them, i don't know if you can find me a poem i can do for 2mins at a speech and drama competition.

NAME: Tammy
I wanted to ask your permission to use your "Cross Country" poem in my school project. Please respond ASAP to me.

NAME: Nathalie bardan

Hi i am nathali, in my scool in ic that is (beirut, lebanon) we were asked to recite poems, written by other poets, other than ourselves. We were supposed to choose our favorite, but i just couldn't find it, i was hopping i could recite one of yours.

Nathalie   Thanks

Hi! At my school we're studing poems and we were supposed to bring in a poem we like. Do you mind If I bring one of you're poems? Don't worry I'll tell the teacher I printed it off you're site.
Lisa,   Highland Oaks, Los Angeles

Your poems are total crap, get a life asshole!  Mat Bent

LOL.  No one can accuse me of ditching the bad reviews! But now read what Amy Mason said...

I wanted to tell you that I like the poems that you write. I think they are very funny, and I much prefer the poems that you write to all the other poem books we have at school. Thank you for reading my letter, and please email me back.- Amy Mason age 8 from Southborne, UK

I mentioned your name and the kids loved your poems and wrote some great ones of their own.
Thanks again     Kate

NAME: Chasity Bopp
EMAIL: ems_hottie_2004@yahoo.com

i liked the miss picky poem! its was great!! i am in the 8th great... i am in 8th grade and we are learnong about poems and i loved writing poems..and i also love to read them...

I am 9 yrs old and doing a project at school on the solar system. I would like to include 2 of your poems please. ( Watch Out and Black Holes ).
My school is Knightswood Primary School, Glasgow Scotland, UK
I will include your name in the thank you page of my project.
thank you,
Shauma Mohapatra

I am a teacher from Brenzett School, Kent and am struggling to find space poems.
Could I use Watching, Watch Out and Black Holes please? I need some space poems to show my class next week.
Julie Pout

Dear Andrea,
Your book of "You'll Grow Soon Alex" was a really good book. It teaches you how to not care about what you look like in the outside, it matters if you grow in the inside. I'm a short one myself! I am about 51 inches and I am in the fourth grade! Sometimes people call me shorty. But I don't really mind. I am short, but those people in the inside are really tiny people. Those people who call me shorty are right. I am short I admit it. But I am always going to be a skyscraper in the inside.
Anyway, I have some qustions about the book. Why was Alex so short? Is it true that if you eat a lot of protein that you'll grow? Jazmin G.
P.S. Is there any more ways to get taller?

I wish I knew - I'm also quite short!

hi andrea im Evelyn for a long time ive been readind your paems and i really like them ! i write alot of poems depending on the mood im in but ive never published any of them i havnet told my parents either well i was just wondering how u stared your own web site later

NAME: khleo thomas


sup i just wanted to say your a good writer my little brother khameel likes your The Best Pet book and your Grandma Got Eaten By a Shark book of poems
Kleo Thomas strikes again!

Dear Mis.Shavick,

I read your book "You'll Grow Soon Alex." It's really good! Funny too!
I'm tall except my head doesn't hit the ceiling. Please reply soon!!!
Brittany

Dear Mrs. Shavick,
I loved your book "You'll Grow Soon Alex"! Even though I'm like the tallest person in my class, I'm always trying to grow taller, even though the kid in the story didn't grow any taller. Anyway, I had some questions about your book, and one of them was; Can yo really grow taller by drinking milk???
Haley
Milk has a lot of protein but it probably won't make you any taller than you would be if you didn't drink it.

Hi, I'm a teacher at Caistor Primary school near Lincoln, England. We are having a 'space day' on wednesday.  I've been looking on the net for some poems to use with the children at the beginning of the session and found yours. I'd love to use your poems in my Literacy lesson.
Many Thanks, Katie

hi, i am currently preparing for my english a-level. we are doing research on 'space' in our group to gather lots of infomation from different areas, mine is poetry. i would be very gratful if i could use Auntie ethel the extraterrestrial, advent horizon and black holes. i live near nottingham, in the east midlands, england. thank you for your time. Joanna Hindson.

I am a student teacher from wales and would like to use the poem grandma was eaten by a shark with my KS1 class. I am emailing to ask your permission.

Many thanks
Amy carr

Dear Andrea,

I am a 11 year-old-girl. In my challenge class(kids who have a high rank)we are making a magazine. We have to write peoms,make recipes and other stuff.I decided to do some of your poems. So I am wondering can I get your permission to put your poems in my book. Ohh!!This book will not be published so you want have to worry about anything.

Sincerlly,Hayshe Boo
P.S. I love your poem SCHOOL POEM!!That is so funny.
Oh to other poems I like but they are not by you are STAR CHILD & THE PAIN.
They are really good but not as good as yours!!!

you have incredebly funny poems and i likr them allot i go to school at buckingham primary school   Kai

hi ...i am doing a a poem book and included in it there are my own poems a section of my favorite poems i would like it if i can use poems on this website in the favorite poems section of my book

thanks for listening
Jen

I just wanted to tell you, that your site is wonderful, today was not a great day for me, and I got online to find some poems, you made me smile, and for that I just wanted to say thanks.  Ashley

Hi I'm a student of Woodlands Secondary School from Singapore... I copied some of your poems about school...The titles are, Predictable and also Miss Picky.... I copied it as I needed them for my Literature project which is about searching poems about school and presenting it to the school on the dateline..... I hope you understand.... Thanks and your poems are really terrific and excellent.....

P.S: You are my idol when it comes to poems...

Yours Truly
Rozlyafirdawatie Rozli
Singapore

Hi
Our class is doing a newsletter and we need to do poems in them. I would like to use yours as they are very intresting and are relevant to the topic. I would like to use the poems 'miss picky' and 'predictable'. I would say who wrote them so plese can i use your poems    Lana

I have found two favourite poems, Predictable and Mrs Nits. With your permission I would like to use them in our new school newspaper next week.

Emily O'Donnell, St Oswald's Junior School, Guiseley, UK

Hello Ms. Shavick,
I was wondering if I would be allowed to use your poem "Predictable" for a project for school. It is a project with what I consider great literature, but it will not be published. In order to give you full credit, could you send some information about yourself, like where you were born ect. Thanks for your help.

Katie Jarrels
Spotswood High School
Penn Laird, Virginia

heyy my names xavier

i just wanted to use one of ur poemsvfor an english assigment on changing perspectiv is that ok. it was a great poem and is very handy for wat im doing

Dear Ms Shavick

My son, Finn (aged 8), has a poetry week at school next week. All children have been asked to recite a poem and we think your poem "Predictable" is fantastic and perfect for an 8 year old to learn and recite in front of the whole school - quite a test of his nerves! We'd be really grateful if you allowed us to use your poem and we will, of course, tell everyone where we found it. Finn is at Brookham School in Hampshire.

Many thanks and we look forward to hearing from you.
Tracey Campbell

Hi i am doing a assignment and i was wondering if i can use Miss Nits well thank u if u let me.

KInd Regards
Maretta Marriott 13 years of age!!!

Please can I use Miss Picky for my school homework? My teacher wants us to find a poem by a famous author.

Your poetry is really SUPER. I wish I could write poetry as good as you. I am 8 years old and I am going to be 9 soon.
Thank you
Sophie O’Connor, from Wirral UK

Dear Andrea,

I would like to say how much I enjoyed reading your work on the website, particularly the poem 'Cross Country', that brought back a number of memories.

Lee Gower, Grimsby, UK

My son's class (Banff Primary, Aberdeenshire) are doing a themed assembly about light and dark.
We have been asked to find a funny poem about aliens to read out as part of the short presentation.
Would it be OK to use your poem 'Watch Out'?
Carol Irvine

hi, i am stephanie i am 12 years old and love your poems, i realy like your poem called "miss picky". In my english class we have to do a talk on a poem we liked, and aboute the auther, so i chose you. i would really like some info about you such as where you were born? when you were born and maybie some stuff about you poems and how many you did? please email back before 15th of febuary

I have had so many teachers exactly like in you poem.."Mrs. Picky"..its soo true and funnny...my sn on aim is beachisparadise2..if u wanna chat..good job on the poem..later

Alexis, San Clemente High School 

Dear Andrea,
I was wondering if I could use your poem "Grandma was eaten by a shark" for a poetry file I am collecting. I am a junior at Valley Forge Christian College located in Phoenixville, PA in the U.S. I would love to use your poem to incorporate in one of my lesson plans for my Creative Arts in the Elementary School class. Have a wonderful day!
:) Lauren Tweedy

Dear Andrea,
I am a high school teacher in Australia. I have been looking at your poems on the website and wondered if I may use some of them with my class? We are studying a unit on The Unnatural, Unnerving and Unexplained. I would like to use some of your poems to stimulate the students thinking and possibly to help them write some of their own. many thanks for considering my request
Hiria Reppion
Melrose High School

Would like to use "Time to get out" poem as input for Literacy in my Reception Class at Muscliff Primary School as I think the children will find it easy to relate to and help them to discuss home life. Cheers. Ann Hadlow

Hey Andrea,

My name is Fergus im 11 and I go to school named Shatin College in Hong Kong and ive been reading your poems on the website and i thought they were FAB!! I particullarly like the School Report Poem because tihs poem is really fit for me because im a bit of a trouble maker but all the trouble has stopped now. I was wondering if i could borrow that poem and also can You come to Hong Kong and visit my school some time this year i would really apreciate it!

Thanks!  Best Regards,
Fergus Heathcote

Hello Ms. Shavick,

I just read and interview done with you on the Word Pool. I really enjoyed what you had to say. I definitely concur with your thoughts on inspritation for writing children's books, the length it takes to write them, and revisions. I'm about to re-read one of my books to my wife and son before submitting it to Robin Wade for his consideration. Actually, I'll be sending him two mss. While I read to my family, I'll be revising some more, no doubt.

God bless you in your endeavors and future writing,

Brian Humek
Irving, TX

I like your poem Advent Horizon.
Would it be OK if I read it out in my school assembly please? We are doing space as our theme. I will say it's by you.   Thanks   Billie

Andrea,

Hello! Greetings from the Land of Morning Calm (South Korea). My name is Brett Clayton I am an EFL teacher working for the Incheon City Board of Education. I am currently drafting a curriculum for my school and would love to use a couple of your poems as material for an intonation lesson. The material is to be published only for students of our program. The poems I've selected are "Watching" and "Predictable". Would this be acceptable?

Take care, Brett Clayton

hi i would like to use the poem Grandma got eaten by a shark
and how brafe are you?
 Celynne   Miami Florida

Andrea, is the advent horizon poem from your hand?
As a hobby I'm making music and right now i'm making a space cd, for which we used this poem. Who can we mention as the author? maybe it is also nice to receive the result within 1/2 months.

Greeting Pieter from Holland

Hi, I am a Year 5 teacher at Auriol Junior School in Surrey and would very much like to use some of your space poems as part of our Literacy lessons. We are doing the over arching topic of 'Earth and Beyond' in Science, Geography, History and Art. We are trying to link our Literacy plan in as well and I am short of some poems about Space. If there is no fee. I intend to use them for the children to read and comprehend.
Many Thanks
Kirsty

Me and my friend really like your poems. We will probably only use one or two.
webster Middle School&Marina del Ray Middle School
Heather & Masha, Los Angeles, United States

NAME: Kay Wood
Montgomeryshire Citizen Advocacy
Newtown
Powys SY16 2EH

Our organisation partners volunteer advocates with adults with a learning disability who have difficulties communicating their needs and wishes. We submit a quarterly newsletter to all our volunteer advocates and people with learning disabilities (readership = 60 people). The newsletter needs to be 'user friendly' and we try and include articles that can be enjoyed by all readers.

I was looking for a short poem that could be enjoyed by everyone and found AUNTY BETTY THINK SHE'S BATGIRL. I think it is absolutely wonderful and I am sure the readers of our newsletter would thoroughly enjoy it.  I do hope you grant permission for us to us it.

I was given a copy of' Stop, Elephant, Stop! as a present for my baby Thea, and she absolutely LOVES it. I’ve read it to her over and over again ……..she can’t get enough of it.

Alison Scaddan

NAME: Cameron Smith Aged 9

My english teacher has asked us to learn a poem.  My mum and I thought it would be funny to learn your Miss Nits poem.  I go to Wessex Junior School in Maidenhead, Berkshire.  I hope it will be alright to use your poem.

dear Andrea,

I chose your poem "un-stable auntie" as my poem for the good speaking competition we have at school. We all had to learn a poem and then 8 people out of every year group of 90 pupils were chosen for the final.I got in the final and came 2nd in my year and in the top 10 out of 400 children in the whole school . I got a big laugh at the end ! Thank you for sharing your poems on the internet.

Joseph Seddon age 7.
well done Joseph!

Hi could I use Advent horizon,watching,AUNTIE ETHEL THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL,WATCH OUT!,BLACK HOLES.
And that is all.
please let me used them cause its an project.

 phi hoang,  Calamvale community colledge/brisbane/australia

NAME: Mrs Ruth Boud

I am a Reception teacher at Bedonwell Infant School, Belvedere, Kent. We are celebrating the recent poetry day by sending home poems for the children to learn over the half term holiday to recite as part of a whole school assembly. I am thinking of using your poem "Time to get out" with my class of 4 & 5 year olds.

what a lovely idea

NAME: Nicole Halbur

Hi - For my English project, we are suppose to read a poem by an author that you like. I would like to use Black Holes to read to the class. Could you give me permission to read it to the class and use it?

Ogden High School, Ogden, Ia Sincerely, Nikki

NAME: jasmine

can i use a poem for home work

NAME: Sara Al-Hussaini

My favourite poem was called Miss Picky because it made me laugh.
Good luck with the rest of them u r great.
from sara - West Lodge Middle School, North Harrow, london, england, the world!

NAME: Lucy Harris

hi, i was wondering if i could use any one of your poems for an essay i have to write on home schooling?
lucy sevenoaks school sevenoaks

NAME: Sean Smith

Poem "PREDICTABLE"

I would like to recite this poem at my school tomorrow, 7th October 2004, as part of National Poetry Day.
Thank you  Sean Smith

I'm doing a school project, a poem anthologie, and my topic is space. I really liked your poems and was hoping I could use some of them in my presentation. 
John Moore, Aged 15.
Belle River, Ontario (Canada).

i really like ur poems!! great      GINA

hi from hilal
from east brook elementary, brooks alberta canada

Hey,
I am wondering if I could read the poem 'Cross Country' to my class. Thanks.
Jame Lee

For anyone else who reads this poem - it was written about a real person - the games teacher I had at school - she was the nastiest teacher ever 

Just to say that I would like to use your space poems as part of my literacy hour in my schools Space Week next week if you don't mind. Thanks
Clare Clements
West Monkton C of E Primary School
Taunton
Somerset

Hi Andrea,

Just a quick note to say that I love what you have done with this site. It's great to see so many poems written by people from all over the world. You have established a very wide community of young poets in the making!

Very well done again!
Will Le Bargy, Guernesy, Channel Islands.

I have just returned from a Mississippi River boat and met a "Victorian Lady." That is--she is a member of a Victorian Ladies group in her home town. She was beautifully dressed in era dresses every day. Over the years, I have been a picker of costume jewelry so we had some very interesting talks about the era. I would like to send a copy of your poem about the Victorian Ladies

Dear Andrea,
i am a grade 8 student on the gold coast australia and i was wondering could i please have permission to use your "school poems" for my assignment! i have chosen you as my famous poet!
thankyou
gabby smith

Hello Andrea,

I wondered if you could help me further by giving me some quick advice?
I am keen to start writing basic children's books, aimed at the foundation stage/early years. I am also intending to illustrate myself.
Do I need to get several books together before approaching anyone?
Where do I start basically??

Kind Regards, Sam Rhodes

Hi Sam

No you do not need to write several books - I only started with one text. See the advice on my Get Published page (link on the top link bar). Also lots of advice on the web, do a search on 'getting published' or 'children's writing.' no easy answers it's very hard work indeed, good luck Andrea

Andrea Shavick,

My writier's workshop class was given an assignment to reach. We were allowed to pick any topic we liked. I picked superstition. In our project we have to included two or three poems on our topic. Your poems where humorous, and I was wondering if you would be willing to allow me to use them for my project? Thank you.
Cherae Franks

Passing Psychometric Tests - I think your book is really useful practice and have enjoyed it
immensely.

Regards Kevin Emamie

I teach speech and drama in Sydney, Australia and my students love funny poems for their exams.
Sandy Cooper

I really enjoyed the poem written by Jennifer Bird, it gave me the chance to discover that it is not just me who feels like that. I hope she will continue to write poems with success and encouragement. I wish i could tell her this myself, but as i cant, i hope you can. No worries if you can’t. Marie Butler
Hopefully she will read this - Andrea

hi i think your poems r gr8 i was wondering weather i could use 1 for my drama presentation for Ltterworth grammar school and community college? (Leicestershire)  

Hannah Jane

Dear Andrea,

Just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed my visit to your site today. Thought I'd pass on our sites in case you found them appropriate to use them on your site as a link:
Abbey Press - www.geocities.com/abbeypress
Freelance Poetry & Drama - www.geocities.com/mollyfreeman2000
Belfast Lough Arts/Environmental Project
www.geocities.com/loughproject
Pushkin Project Page for St Brigid's National School
www.geocities.com/stbrigidsnational

Keep up the inspiring work!
Very best wishes,
Molly

Dear Andrea

I teach special needs and have a presentation evening coming up and would like very much for one of my students to read on stage one of your school poems.

thanks Anita

i would like to use these poems to read to my 6th grade class they are really good poems and i think that they should hear them!


sincerly, brittany nesseth

3d grader to Read "Predictable" at an end of year school poetry day.

Emma Shiffert, Richmond, VA

i think that miss nits is very funny. i think your site is brill and also i would like to say i like to eat seals i am very strange and eat bees and frogs i luv turkish people hehe lol. emma matthews

i think your poems are canny crap they cud be more interesting so haha on you .
sandra dee

hello i luv cheese. i think your poems are great they are very interesting please please write some good poems about chocolate cheese thankyou 

laura hardy, i live in south shields

Hey im shandy from Bellingham washington im in 7th grade and were doing poem reports and we have to look up poems and then write what we like about them. since it says that i cant use with out permision i thought i would ask.I wont take credit for our work and your anme will be posted on the report.Please get back to me as soon as u can so i can turn my homework in ontime thank you and by the way great writing.   Shandy

Hi

My son & I really like your poem 'Predictable' (somehow rings true?!!) and would like to use it in his leaving assembly next week. You will, of course, be given credit!

Hope this is OK, many thanks        

Dear Ms. Andrea Shavick,

I had the opportunity to visit your poetry page on internet. I read some of your school poems. I have just started a magazine for school children here in India. The name of the magazine is Shreya's Quizdom. I would like to give your intro as GUEST POET of Shreya's Quizdom for the July month issue and use two of your poems, namely: PREDICTABLE, DUMBO and MISS NITS. 

S.C. Mishra
Editor: Shreya's Quizdom

hello I liked the Cross Country poem. It was very enjoyable.
Victoria, from Jax, Florida,  USA

I would like to use one of your space poems in order to analyze it through the eyes of the main character in my book. I would not be doing anything with it other than handing a copy to my teacher with my analysis. The school is Crystal Lake Central in Illinios. Thanks Linnea

I have to find an interesting poem for my homework and write 5 questions about it.
I found your poems on the internet and really like them especially the ones about school.
Please may I use your poem called School Report for my homework.
My homework has to be in tomorrow and as always I have left it to the last minute. I do hope you get this in time.
Thank you Rhys Jones

Dear Andrea
The homework was a success. My friend Henry thought the poem was great.
I will read more of your poems on your website, especially ones about school and homework.
Thank you again
Rhys Jones aged 10yrs.

Hi my name is Tracy and i am a junior at Olton High School and i am writing you to ask for your permission to use a poem named Lucky Escape for an English project. we are assigned to look up poems and their authors to present them to the class. i live in Olton, Tx, USA. please email ASAP because the project is due by Monday May 17th, 2004) Thank You!

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