If you think poetry is too "whatever," (esp. students/teachers) then read Looking Down on the Moon! This eclectic collection contains all manner of poetic wordplay about all manner of topics-everything from sensuous nature to social critique to religion to musicality to commemorations to life experiences to literature to pets to family and school drama to world trauma, while adding modern twists to old forms, exploiting freer forms and formulaic forms, and introducing a brand new form, "Onomatopoeic Poetry!" The original artwork, writings and recordings from this book invite readers not only to think but also demand readers respond :"Different days, different ways." Feel what you feel; see what you see, flipping page to page again and again. Laugh, argue, protest, smile, sing, ponder, be disgusted, shout, cry, wonder, voice anger, and, then, perhaps, be moved to pen a few lines of your own. Add your creative touch to improving this world through your own gifts, however they manifest, as an artist, as a supporter of the arts, as both! This writer's passionate hope: Go ahead! Have fun! Answer the call! READ Looking Down on the Moon, then do something great or small, anything except nothing at all.