The Mistakes That Made Us: Confessions from Twenty Poets

An engrossing exploration of real-life mistakes from twenty poets.



Scoring a goal against your own team. Copying a classmate's schoolwork. Accepting a dare to jump down the stairs . . . and getting hurt.



This engrossing poetry anthology, edited by Irene Latham and Charles Waters, explores making mistakes and learning from them. Twenty brave poets—including Linda Sue Park, Margarita Engle, Allan Wolf, David Elliott, Matt Forrest Esenwine, Lacresha Berry, George Ella Lyon, Jaime Adoff, Vikram Madan, Kim Rogers, Douglas Florian, Tabatha Yeatts, Jorge Argueta ,Jane Yolen, Charles Waters, JaNay Brown-Wood, Irene Latham, April Halprin Wayland, Darren Sardelli, and Naomi Shihab Nye—share real-life blunders they made as young people. Following each poem is a short prose explanation of what happened afterward. A fascinating read!