by Mary E. Cronin | Dec 22, 2023 | Poetry, Uncategorized
Last week I had the delight of leading a Poetry Friday lesson in a second-grade classroom. I used my poem “Skating with Dad,” featured on the wonderful poetry website Dirigible Balloon. After reading the chart together, we had fun using highlighter tape,...
by Mary E. Cronin | Jul 21, 2023 | Poetry, Uncategorized
I’m delighted that my poem “Glimpses of Green” is published today in the online children’s poetry journal Tyger Tyger, based in the UK. What I love about Tyger Tyger is that it is aimed at children and teachers– giving educators (and anyone who cares for...
by Mary E. Cronin | Nov 11, 2022 | Poetry, Uncategorized
On November 20, I will be joining a poetry party in England– and you can come too! Back in 2016, I visited London and happened upon an enchanting holiday fair. It’s where I took this picture: Years later, I wrote a poem called “Wintertime Fair,” and it was...
by Mary E. Cronin | Aug 30, 2022 | FDNY, Uncategorized
I know there’s an image of New Yorkers being somewhat hard-boiled when visitors get googly-eyed over the charms and flash of NYC, but on a recent visit, I saw the opposite, thanks to the FDNY. We were walking past a firehouse not far from Times Square, and the bay was...
by Mary E. Cronin | Apr 9, 2021 | Poetry, Uncategorized
I love reading a poetry collection in many voices, and Walter Dean Myers’ HERE IN HARLEM is a masterful example of this. In his introduction, Myers writes that he was inspired by Yeats, Synge, and Spoon River Anthology to write about his beloved neighborhood in...
by Mary E. Cronin | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
A ray of light in a pretty dark time– that’s how I am feeling about signing with literary agent Lori Steel at Raven Quill Literary Agency. When Lori and I talked on Zoom, I could tell she was excited about my work. She said one of my picture books gave her...