The mistakes that made us: confessions from twenty poets

Oopsie daisy!

Most valuable player / by Allan Wolf

Matter I alls / by Linda Sue Park

Science lesson / by David Elliott

Eating concrete / by Matt Forrest Esenwine

The wanderer / by Lacresha Berry

Stuff happens

Dare / by George Ella Lyon

You wanted to pitch / by Jaime Adoff

Scissors / by Margarita Engle

My secret / by Vikram Madan

Silent / by Kim Rogers

Blessing in disguise

My favorite mistake / by Douglas Florian

When I was Miss Spider / by Tabatha Yeatts

Escapando/Escaping / by Jorge Argueta

Skipping / by Jane Yolen

Tough loss / by Charles Waters

What have I done?

Pencil / by Naomi Shihab Nye

Birthday breaths / by JaNay Brown-Wood

Shattered / by Irene Latham

Between us: a poem for two voices / by April Halprin Wayland

The glue that binds us / by Darren Sardelli.