{"id":292112,"date":"2025-06-14T04:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/poetry-for-children-guest-post-chris-baron-on-spark\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T04:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:06:16","slug":"poetry-for-children-guest-post-chris-baron-on-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=292112","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Poetry for Children: GUEST POST: Chris Baron on SPARK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-7640711051444583066\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I&#8217;m so pleased to welcome <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chris-baron.com\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Baron<\/a><\/b> to the blog today with his guest post on his forthcoming novel in verse, <b><span style=\"color: red;\">Spark.<\/span><\/b> This powerful novel shows how personal experience plus extensive research can combine to tell a truly compelling and timely story.<br \/><b><br \/>Research, Poetry, and Discovering the Lore in <i><span style=\"color: red;\">Spark<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: red; font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><b>by Chris Baron<br \/><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEixjvwroMiP5R9uhvDUsDO0z2Cja3I8IPPl0vVNMhuDpcpU4eAefGWm-r9iDMIst4lYD9JQLL2js490vYllKQ2wlZ1TyoQevsq4v_rnlNAl-BVCBOblpyxgTEo20w0WPrBXaowLs-1AQiyvnt15yMdvkRKWhVnKtu_9_WTEs08XtIMbCDokHLM9\/s1332\/COVER.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1332\" data-original-width=\"854\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEixjvwroMiP5R9uhvDUsDO0z2Cja3I8IPPl0vVNMhuDpcpU4eAefGWm-r9iDMIst4lYD9JQLL2js490vYllKQ2wlZ1TyoQevsq4v_rnlNAl-BVCBOblpyxgTEo20w0WPrBXaowLs-1AQiyvnt15yMdvkRKWhVnKtu_9_WTEs08XtIMbCDokHLM9\/s320\/COVER.png\" width=\"205\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I\u2019ve never researched for a book, more than I have researched for <b><i><span style=\"color: red;\">Spark<\/span><\/i>. <\/b>I\u2019ll be honest. I love to research, and like most writers, I find joy and inspiration in the process. But during a recent school visit,  when I told the young readers about how much I researched, they groaned. Actually groaned. \u201cResearch?\u201d \u201cfor poetry?\u201d  \u201cIsn\u2019t that boring?\u201d  I told them that yes, sometimes it can be boring, but it also gives us a chance to learn even more about what we care about!  They didn\u2019t buy it. But that\u2019s when one brave soul raised their hand and said. \u201cI like to learn more about the Star Wars universe.\u201d And it was <b>on<\/b>.  We talked about how they know everything about Pok\u00e9mon, and Star Wars, and books they love, stories they read over and over. They know the \u201clore\u201d of the world and the characters. \u201cThat\u2019s what research is in stories.\u201d I told them. \u201cIt\u2019s the lore of the world you are creating for your story.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">\u201cEven in poetry?\u201d they questioned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">\u201cYes. Especially for poetry. In fact, poetry is the only way I can write about a friendship so deep, and an experience so challenging.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">At its very heart, <b><i><span style=\"color: red;\">Spark,<\/span><\/i><\/b> my new, middle grade novel in verse, is about the friendship between Finn, who just wants to do well in school even though his family has had employment struggles,  and Rabbit, his feisty best friend, who, if she could, might just live in the national park near their home in the California Sierras. Together, they love watching their trail cameras and learning about the animals in the forest.. They even want to use their trail cameras for their eighth grade project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">But the climate is changing. The seasons are all mixed up. It\u2019s dry, and the fire danger casts a shadow over their green lives. Like so many places around the state, and around the country, communities are suffering. When the wildfires come to their town, the kids must suddenly evacuate and their worlds are turned upside down. They must escape. Live evacuated, and eventually return, but to what?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">What can kids do against such a threat?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">So what\u2019s the \u201clore\u201d of <b><i><span style=\"color: red;\">Spark<\/span><\/i><\/b>? It is, of course, our world. And with such real threats we face, like wildfires, climate change, over-development, and a host of other things, I wanted to create an authentic world and in some small way hopefully represent the unreal impact of wildfires.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">My own experience with the devastating wildfires in San Diego, plays an enormous role in my understanding of the story.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjzCYwrC1sCW184CAe8IkPfwHJyY-2PymfFzodBWg8gXYTHD1ILqNO44l1eo5uaeats6TzrtF3hxU28w2dFpZNna4TSGyPAgjP93C79O_uqzRpF2xJuElwLeXx3D7nlQFfIYKDWeHWWYI_eqsCUczi_EarYRN3_wo9zw71G07lLayRlA9bRJHId\/s1200\/The%20Cedar%20Fire%20outside%20my%20house.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"630\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjzCYwrC1sCW184CAe8IkPfwHJyY-2PymfFzodBWg8gXYTHD1ILqNO44l1eo5uaeats6TzrtF3hxU28w2dFpZNna4TSGyPAgjP93C79O_uqzRpF2xJuElwLeXx3D7nlQFfIYKDWeHWWYI_eqsCUczi_EarYRN3_wo9zw71G07lLayRlA9bRJHId\/w640-h336\/The%20Cedar%20Fire%20outside%20my%20house.jpg\" width=\"640\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: start;\">The Cedar Fire outside my house (Photo credit: kpbs)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I remember orange skies, watering down roofs, getting animals to safety. I even wrote poems trying to cope.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiPLuNQxQkpK9N0fzEBclwbyrELuDndw4oHzDjY2xh4C5-WmhY1WRnxbD_pnohXbFT3fkupfu50RYv_EZZ5Ano42Zt89tnGP356l1PKR47wzFoLXxkeiqVWIDDYPdMMcGu-NVVYBluzKpBk1wSd4RLOtCK0AiyXeWSgNXq_pG6yPSHXgf88lhhL\/s640\/Chris'%20Poem%20During%20the%20San%20Diego%20Fires.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"640\" data-original-width=\"640\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiPLuNQxQkpK9N0fzEBclwbyrELuDndw4oHzDjY2xh4C5-WmhY1WRnxbD_pnohXbFT3fkupfu50RYv_EZZ5Ano42Zt89tnGP356l1PKR47wzFoLXxkeiqVWIDDYPdMMcGu-NVVYBluzKpBk1wSd4RLOtCK0AiyXeWSgNXq_pG6yPSHXgf88lhhL\/w400-h400\/Chris'%20Poem%20During%20the%20San%20Diego%20Fires.JPG\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">But my own experience was only the start. I decided to travel across the state to meet people, visit locations, and discover as many voices as I possibly could.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhbUIf3200kVeRUWaDY-D1ZNT1K41FQUgmqjFSBGASoiNhpCq-gFXHFX_8g45dC2jKScrLa6wOxqUOd-3ki0-RDAJe_h85deGH-hjuJofE736kUNqYYjWfAhU4aeq2IyZ50sXhfvbUaK9747mhKVgaLcdaWV8z1_OyIdfSM5wiDQlhARYnpF1Yo\/s640\/Remains%20of%20a%20house%20in%20Rancho%20Cuyamaca%20State%20park..jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"640\" data-original-width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhbUIf3200kVeRUWaDY-D1ZNT1K41FQUgmqjFSBGASoiNhpCq-gFXHFX_8g45dC2jKScrLa6wOxqUOd-3ki0-RDAJe_h85deGH-hjuJofE736kUNqYYjWfAhU4aeq2IyZ50sXhfvbUaK9747mhKVgaLcdaWV8z1_OyIdfSM5wiDQlhARYnpF1Yo\/w480-h640\/Remains%20of%20a%20house%20in%20Rancho%20Cuyamaca%20State%20park..jpg\" width=\"480\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: start;\">Remains of a house in Rancho Cuyamaca State park\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/>The research allowed me to infuse the book with authentic language from firefighters like Matt Ryan, and Torii Cooper, Park Ranger\/Photographer with the National Park Service. Provide  authentic animal encounters guided by renowned  researchers like Roland Smith, and current, historical and cultural significance of fire by working with Frank Lake, Tribal Liaison and ecologist for the US Forest Service. Their voices and experiences come alive as characters, settings, and messages of hope and understanding.  In the author\u2019s note in the book, I have extensive information and credits to all of those people and organizations who helped in the creation of the book, and I am forever grateful to them.  They are the voices of the \u201clore\u201d in the story.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">But how does research work in verse?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Every poem is a chance to dive deeper into the minds and hearts of the characters and what they are experiencing. Poetry is a form of expression that speaks for the heart and allows the reader (or hearer) to explore the internal landscape of a character.. We, especially young people, often have so much to express about what they have seen and experienced, but need time and language to process.  Poetry is so often  the language of the quiet and extraordinary  soul.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Research provides some of the richest opportunities to inspire poems. t\u2019s well known that CS Lewis&#8217; famous work <i>The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe,<\/i> was initially inspired by an image of a faun carrying packages in the snow.  Sometimes a single image can inspire an entire book!  Researching galleries of images and exploring the many fires, Paradise, Camp, Cedar, Witch Creek, was extremely difficult. It was so hard to see them up close, devastating. But it\u2019s real. Those scenes find their way into the book. Here\u2019s one where Finn and his mom first see a photo of their own town. <\/p>\n<p><b>Photos<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Hollows is unrecognizable\u2014<\/p>\n<p>life<\/p>\n<p>interrupted.<\/p>\n<p>Skeletons of cars,<\/p>\n<p>a basketball hoop<\/p>\n<p>with a melted backboard,<\/p>\n<p>cracked plant pots,<\/p>\n<p>bent street lights,<\/p>\n<p>barbecue grills torn apart,<\/p>\n<p>a hollowed trampoline,<\/p>\n<p>and everywhere houses should be,<\/p>\n<p>nothing<\/p>\n<p>but ashes<\/p>\n<p>and silence.<\/p>\n<p>But there are also images of hope and healing. Firefighters rescuing animals, notes left on door frames, and windows of houses they saved, and couldn\u2019t save.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for tracking dirt on the<\/p>\n<p>upstairs carpet needed to close<\/p>\n<p>windows to keep fire out!<\/p>\n<p>RHHotshots<\/p>\n<p>Through research with ecologists and indigenous tribal liaisons, I also found so many startling and amazing facts about wildfires, their importance to the regions, historically and culturally, and how important it is that we learn the greater \u201clore\u201d of wildfire. This created an abundance of inspirations. I wrote so many poems that never made it into the book in their first-draft form. Here\u2019s an example, a poem, \u201cAlive,\u201d that eventually  exists as just a few lines in the book, but is taken directly from a process used by first rangers.<\/p>\n<p><b>Alive<br \/><\/b><br \/>It\u2019s alive! I shout!<\/p>\n<p>Uncle Charlie looks back,<\/p>\n<p>lowers his glasses,<\/p>\n<p>reaches into a pouch<\/p>\n<p>pulls out a wiry flag<\/p>\n<p>and places it at the base<\/p>\n<p>of the living tree.<\/p>\n<p>Good, he says. That\u2019s excellent.<\/p>\n<p>holding it up to the light<\/p>\n<p>This tree needed<\/p>\n<p>the fire to germinate.<\/p>\n<p>The other kids<\/p>\n<p>come to see<\/p>\n<p>the living tree.<\/p>\n<p>He looks toward the sun,<\/p>\n<p>points a finger at the sky<\/p>\n<p>and back to the forest floor.<\/p>\n<p>Most teachers teach<\/p>\n<p>with as many words as possible.<\/p>\n<p>but Uncle Charlie is a great camp counselor<\/p>\n<p>He wants us to figure things<\/p>\n<p>out for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Jonas, he says,<\/p>\n<p>lift up that pinecone.<\/p>\n<p>He lifts it up from the sooty ground<\/p>\n<p>Now shake it<\/p>\n<p>When he does,<\/p>\n<p>flittery seeds<\/p>\n<p>on tiny wings<\/p>\n<p>fall out from<\/p>\n<p>between the cracks.<\/p>\n<p>These are serotinous cones<\/p>\n<p>they need the fire to be free.<\/p>\n<p>All of us stare<\/p>\n<p>at the pinecone<\/p>\n<p>while seeds<\/p>\n<p>fall into the ashes.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, when Finn and Rabbit discover something incredible and mysterious in the forest, their hope of preserving that last remnant of the living forest, Forest Heart.  is sparked even as developers have other ideas.  This is when they decide to use their love and experience with trail cameras to become unlikely activists.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Here are some of the remarkable trail cameras channels that I researched and consulted to help create their experience.<\/p>\n<p><b>Links for Trail Camera Channels:<\/b><br \/>Swan Valley Connections: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SwanValleyConnectionsCondon\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SwanValleyConnectionsCondon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The very famous Pennsylvania Trail Camera<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JyrbqiCokdw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JyrbqiCokdw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll conclude with this. Research and poetry are perfect companions. Poetry is often the exploration of a single thought, idea or image. Something moved us or affected us so much, that there are no \u201cnormal\u201d words that can express the transcendent nature of it.  In writing<b><i><span style=\"color: red;\"> Spark<\/span><\/i><\/b>, I knew I couldn&#8217;t capture the wide range and depth of living with wildfires, but in verse, there are portraits, moments, voices, relationships, healing, and, dear reader, hope, that we can all share together. Here\u2019s one last poem from <b><i><span style=\"color: red;\">Spark.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Hope<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Hope is the simplest thing\u2014<\/p>\n<p>a warm bed to sleep in,<\/p>\n<p>a loving voice,<\/p>\n<p>saying goodnight.<\/p>\n<p>Hope is sunlight<\/p>\n<p>through the morning window.<\/p>\n<p>Hope is omelets<\/p>\n<p>and French toast for breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>Hope is pine cone scales<\/p>\n<p>opening wide,<\/p>\n<p>the seeds flying off<\/p>\n<p>into the wind.<\/p>\n<p>Hope is oak saplings<\/p>\n<p>coming to life<\/p>\n<p>somewhere out there<\/p>\n<p>in the ashy earth.<\/p>\n<p>Hope is walking<\/p>\n<p>in the forest with Rabbit<\/p>\n<p>imagining any second<\/p>\n<p>we will discover<\/p>\n<p>something new.<\/p>\n<p>Hope is believing<\/p>\n<p>that the ones you love<\/p>\n<p>love you back,<\/p>\n<p>even when you can\u2019t see them.<\/p>\n<p>Hope is having<\/p>\n<p>enough faith<\/p>\n<p>for someone else,<\/p>\n<p>even when you might<\/p>\n<p>not have enough on your own.<\/p>\n<p><b><i><span style=\"color: red;\">Spark <\/span><\/i><\/b>is out July 15th. You can preorder signed editions from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warwicks.com\/category\/event-categories\/onsite-author-book-talkssignings\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Head on over to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ayearofreading.org\/2025\/04\/30\/poetry-friday-roundup-is-here-2\/\" style=\"font-family: arial;\" target=\"_blank\">A(nother) Year of Reading<\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> where our fearless leader Mary Lee Hahn is hosting our <b>Poetry Friday<\/b> gathering this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so pleased to welcome Chris Baron to the blog today with his guest post on his forthcoming novel in verse, Spark. 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