Children's Poet Laureate visits Our Lady of Lourdes

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Mary Ann Hoberman, who this year was named the nation's Children's Poet Laureate, addresses Our Lady of Lourdes students.

SALT LAKE CITY - Poetry and science may seem an unusual mix, but a new anthology explores the pairing, and students at Our Lady of Lourdes School learned firsthand how the two combine.

On Nov. 5, Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman and co-writer Linda Winston visited the school's 4th - 8th grade students.

Hoberman is the author of 45 books, all but one of which are in verse. She is the second person in the United States to hold the title of Children's Poet Laureate. Her latest work appears in a collection of science meets poetry is published in an anthology, edited by Winston, called "The Tree That Time Built."

The Our Lady of Lourdes students gathered in the church to meet Hoberman and Winston and learn how the authors came up with the anthology and why poetry and science go so well together. Winston, who has a passion for science, encouraged Hoberman to integrate her work with that of other famed poets of many different generations within the new anthology.

Students also were even given the chance to recite with the authors "Anthropoids" and "You and I," two poems from the collection.