Myrtle Van Laar is a retired educator and librarian. She taught first through fifth grade and later directed a children’s department in a public library in Hyattsville, MD. She enj...view moreMyrtle Van Laar is a retired educator and librarian. She taught first through fifth grade and later directed a children’s department in a public library in Hyattsville, MD. She enjoys her many nieces and nephews. Her hobbies are art, music, reading and writing poetry. She now resides in Silver Spring, MD.
Some of her poems have been featured in these books: Patience and Grace; Best Poets of 2011; Who’s Who in Poetry 2012; Best Poems and Poets of 2012; Best Poets of 2013; and Who’s Who in American Poetry 2013.view less