Leah Zabari
Who remembers the Name Game? You know, the one that goes, “Leah, Leah, bo bia, banana fanna fo fia, me my mo mia, Leah!” I think I first fell in love with the Name Game while watching Sesame Street. After learning that song, I came up with all sorts of rhyming words – some that did rhyme and others, well, okay didn’t rhyme but were still funny in my kid mind. After getting the hang of silly rhyming songs, I moved on to nursery rhymes and from there, began to pick out words in books that rhymed. After a while, poems were introduced to me and that’s when I fell in love with poets like Robert Frost and Shel Silverstein. Poems are silly and fun, thought-provoking and powerful, simple and complex. The thing I like about poems is that they are diverse – there are poems for every age! Readmore
