Every year, COMPAS publishes an anthology of writing by Minnesota students who worked with professional writers in the Writers in the Schools program. And every year, I am astonished at the talent and imaginations of these youngsters. The 28th annual anthology, "My Mind Can See in the Night" (edited by Sarah Fox, $12), includes poetry, short stories, memoirs, plays and songs by 90 students.

Fox begins her introduction referring to the poem "My Mind Is a Spaceship'' by Bryce Martenson, who attends South Elementary School in St. Peter. His poem begins: "My mind is like a spaceship/full of questions./My mind is the world/orbiting the sun,/wondering how the bright/sun shines like a dove/in the evening sky …''
Bryce is in third grade!