When Mrs. Merz asks her sixth grade class to write poems of apology,
they end up liking their poems so much that they decide to put them
together into a book. Not only that, but they get the people to whom
they apologized to write poems back.
In haiku, pantoums, two-part poems, snippets, and rhymes, Mrs. Merz's
class writes of crushes, overbearing parents, loving and losing pets,
and more. Some poets are deeply sorry; some not at all. Some are
forgiven; some are not. In each pair of poems a relationship, a
connection, is revealed.