Stefan Karlsson
@stefkidlit
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Writer & reader of #kidlit, poems for kids, picture books, & #versenovels┃ #12x12PB ┃ Poems in @TheDirigible @LTPmag @PaddlerPress @tygertygermag @TheToyPress
Portland, OR
Joined June 2023
I’m honored to be featured as a guest poet on @moses_brian’s blog. Thank you so much, Brian, for giving me this opportunity to reflect on my poetry journey & share some of my children’s poems! 💚. & shout out to @CarlBurKids for letting me include one of his poems in my post! 💜.
New Guest Poet on my blog: From Portland USA, Stefan Karlsson. Here I am, the purple cow. They say no one wants to be me. And on top of that, somehow.no one seems to see me. Read about Stefan and explore some of his poems here: @stefkidlit @CarlBurkitt
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RT @dreambeastpoems: A few weeks ago, our school lost a beautiful family in the Air India flight. I needed to creat….
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Honored to be a Dirigible Balloon Poet among such stellar company! ✨🎈.
Just been counting (I had five spare minutes) . With over 2000 poems, 482 writers (around the world) are qualified to call themselves "Dirigible Balloon Poets" (should they wish . ).JH x 🙂👍 ..#PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon 🎈
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RT @josiedefalco: I’m overjoyed to have my poem included in this wonderful issue. Thank you very much @tygertygermag @RachelPoet. Congratul….
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“That’s what I want to do – create stories that children want to revisit nightly because they are so magical and well written.”. Lovely new @litkidsmagazine interview by @WritesSue! 🌕🦊.
Announcing the release of our new #blog interview with The Toy magazine's founder and editor, @WritesSue! Thank you for your #author insight and encouragement, Sue. Please follow her on SM and check out her book, Supermoon, in our shop. Keep shining! ✨.
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RT @CarlBurKids: Some news about my grown up writing. Would not recommend buying for your little ones. But if you are a big one, then absol….
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Brilliant new @moses_brian blog post featuring children’s poems by @RobinRB17! Loved learning more about Rachel’s work and reading these funny & petrifying poems!.
Absolutely delighted and honoured to be @moses_brian guest poet today! Little did I think, after years of walking his iguana round my classroom, that this would ever happen! Thank you so much for asking me. 😊 #poetryforkids #kidlit .
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Happy Alice in Wonderland Day! Resharing this video of a little pop-up book project I made a few years ago inspired by Lewis Carroll’s classic books! .#AliceInWonderland #kidlitart #bookarts .
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RT @JSellarsLies: Ode to Trains 🚂 ( and why you should choose poetry and not train food). #trains #trainfood #poems #funnypoems #poemsforc….
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Lately I’ve been reading lots of #kidlit graphic novels and I absolutely love Tales of a Seventh-Grade Lizard Boy by Jonathan Hill. Here’s one of my fav (very relatable) sequences 🦎😆
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RT @tygertygermag: Over the moon to launch our Big Things issue, with 16 magnificent poems about everything from musical instruments to mon….
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RT @TheDirigible: Children need free access to good resources that encourage creativity in writing (poetry comes to mind). Pop over to the….
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Found another poetry window in my neighborhood, this one featuring an old fav by Richard Brautigan! .#poetry #poetrycommunity
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Love this brilliant collection of poems for kids + the stories behind them! 📝.
New blog post: The Stories Behind the Poems Part 3. Read about how poets get the inspirations for their poems. @JulesJumping @josiedefalco @dreambeastpoems @JThomasABC
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After years of saying, “I should make myself a website,” I finally made myself a website. Still pretty rough…but it lives! .#writerlife #kidlit #writingcommunity .
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Grateful to have two new poems for kids flying on @TheDirigible 🎈. Thank you to @JonathanHumble for lifting up children’s poetry! Here’s one of mine. #poetry #poetrycommunity
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Carl is such a poetry pro that he makes it look easy 🏔️🍦 Love this poem 💜 . And lucky for us it’s now flying up on @TheDirigible 🎈.
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RT @JonathanHumble: Another upload of fantastic poems written for children. Free to access and free from pop-up adv….
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RT @JulieAnnaPoetry: The lovely @RebeccaLeek_ read one of my poems from @TheDirigible on her radio show today and made it sound so good (ab….
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RT @dreambeastpoems: Thank you so much for your beautiful reading of 'Dream Flight' @RebeccaLeek_.You can hear Rebecca give my poem wings….
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