Snake Song
J. Patrick Lewis, "Snake Song" from A Hippopotamusn’t, published by The Dial Press. Copyright © 1990 by J. Patrick Lewis. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
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Poet J. Patrick Lewis b. 1942
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
Biography
Former Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis grew up in Gary, Indiana and earned a BA at Saint Joseph’s College, an MA at Indiana University, and a PhD in economics at the Ohio State University. Lewis taught in the department of Business, Accounting and Economics at Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, until 1998 when he became a full-time writer.
Lewis is the author of more than fifty books of poetry for children, which . . .
Poems by J. Patrick Lewis
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