If you haven't watched author Dave Eggers's speech on TED.com, stop reading this and go watch it. Done? Good. Now you understand how important writing is to kids, and how awesome it is that local poet Denise Lanier was awarded one of Eggers's Once upon a School challenge prizes. Lanier is already working inside the school system to teach poetry to South Florida's youth, but now she has teamed up with Books & Books founder Mitchell Kaplan to... More >>>