Bio+page+Bruce+Lasky+By+Alana+Faust

**﻿DIED: Is currently alive and living in Minnesota**
=== **ABOUT HIS/HER LIFE:**﻿ Bruce Lansky was in New York City in 1941. Bruce became a poet because his mother ,a school librarian, loved poetry and read poems to him every night before bedtime. Such as poems by Robert LoiseStevenston and Lewis Carroll. When he was in college he didnt seem to like poetry because the poetry he studied was so hard to understand. He started writing poetry in 1991 when he began working on Kids Pick the Funniest Poems. His poetry began to improve in 1992. While writing many nursery rhymes whick were published in The Adventures of Mother Goose whick is (now titled Mary Had a Little Jam).Thats why hebegan nursery rymes when he taught elementary school kids about writing poetry. This is a little of what happend through Bruce Lansky's life === === **ABOUT HIS/HER WORK: Bruce's work is mostly i would say childrens poetry. He has created many different poems. As I told you he started out writing nursery rhymes. Also his work progressed in 1992. Bruce Lansky has many different poems most of the poems are for children. So if your every looking for a great kids poem look-up Bruce Lansky. His poems are fun,creative,and easy for kids to understand.** ===