Susan Meyers

Hip, hip, hooray for babies! From squish baby bellies to ticklish little toes, from crawling to clapping, and playtime to naptime, celebrate all the amazing things that babies can do!

Describes babies and the things they do from the time they are born until their first birthday.

Keep and Give Away was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In her first full-length collection, Susan Meyers guides us through her examination of life's ordinary moments and the seemingly ordinary images that abide in them to reveal the extraordinary. From minutia to marriage, crumbs to crows, nothing is too commonplace to escape her attention...

At almost fourteen, Myra shops in the fat girl department. No one, least of all her mother, will let her forget it. But, Myra finally finds a friend, who wants to spend time with her and doesn't mind being seen with her. But, is it for real? Or, will her new friend be like all the other kids, and make fun of her for being fat? Why does she have to choose between friendship and doing what's right? And, who is really answering the notes Myra leaves...

"When your late husband worked downtown, thongs were something people wore on their feet," Lillybelle Maudine Granger told her sister, Annabelle Verline Kingston. Whether trying to imagine heaven ("Wouldn't a purple halo be nice?"), playing matchmaker for the youth minister, or helping a stressed-out young mother, this pair of seventy-something senior citizens tackle it with flair and humor. Because, for these two old ladies, it's all in the attitude! A...