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American poet and children's author

J. Patrick Lewis (born May 5, 1942) is an American poet and prose writer noted for his children's poems and other light verse.^[1] He worked as professor of economics from 1974 to 1998, after which he devoted himself full-time to writing.

Awards

Lewis has received the 2013 Claudia Lewis Award,^[2] the 2014 Cybils Award for Poetry,^[3] the Society of Children Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text (2002),^[4] the Ohioana Book Award for Poetry for Young Children (2015),^[5] and others. He was the recipient of the 2010–11 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Excellence in Children's Poetry Award, presented every two years. He also served from 2011 to 2013 as the third U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (now called the Young People's Poet Laureate).^[6]

Works

• Lewis, J. Patrick (1988). The Tsar and the Amazing Cow. New York: Dial. OP
• Lewis, J. Patrick (1990). A Hippopotamusn't; and Other Animal Verses. Ne
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  “The poem

  is always more important than

  the poet.“

  Welcome to the sixteenth episode of SPOTLIGHT ON NCTE POETS! The videos in thisseries with Lee Bennett Hopkins are brief and personal looks at all the recipients of the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children.

  This series isn’t about analyzing the poets and their work, but rather about preserving Lee’s personal recollections, insights, and memories of each of these amazing people. Through these short interviews, we hope to foster an appreciation of the poets and their work by “reading it and loving it from the heart,” as Lee says.

  This installment brings us to a beloved and prolific poet and anthologist who has been delighting us with his wordplay for almost thirty years.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  In 2011, J. Patrick Lewis became the sixteenth recipientof the NCTE award. He has also served as the United States Children’s Poet Laureate, from 2011 to 2013. When not writing poetry, Pat writes poetry, inspired by just about everything he comes into contact with. Th

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  J. Patrick Lewis, Former Children’s Poet Laureate

  “Poetry hit me, at the age of 40, like a pie in the face. A banana cream pie happily, which I love,” shares J. Patrick Lewis, an award-winning children’s poet.

  Though a bit unconventional, Lewis’ pathway to becoming one of America’s celebrated poets began when he was an economics professor at Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio. What prompted him to switch emphasis from the study of prosperity to the study of poetry? “Quite simply, the realization that I was in the wrong field with the wrong grasshoppers,” admits Lewis. “Of course I couldn’t afford to quit my day job—teaching college economics—so I soldiered on for another decade in the classroom before I retired early from teaching.”

  Before embarking on his second career, Lewis decided to take time off to study the craft. “Sadly, I never had that magical teacher or librarian who showered me with poetry, so I had to discover it on my own. When I did, I became a fool for it, which is how I think of myself now. But loving poetry is a necessary but insufficient condition f