2. A Poet and Artist

4. He was born lives and works in New York City. He is a poet and artist. He wrote Dinothesaurous, and Nature Walk, and Beast Feast

5. Douglas Florian was born on May 18, 1950 he is 6 2 years old. In New York he lived there his whole life and never left.

6. Douglas Florian has a wife named Marie and three kids. He uses them as a springboard for his poems.

7. What inspired Douglas Florian? He began writing poetry after he read a book called Oh That’s Ridiculous it had so many funny poems he started to write his own.

8. Douglas Florian said that it takes a lot of writing to get good at it. He also said there is only one rule to poetry There are no rules