by Mary E. Cronin | Apr 3, 2017 | Community connections, Poetry, We Need Diverse Books
It started out with a curve ball. And that was before the table flipped. When I head to the South Bronx each year to lead a poetry workshop at St. Luke School, I expect that I’ll teach the 7th and then 8th grades. The classrooms are right next to each other, I...
by Mary E. Cronin | Jun 30, 2016 | Cape Cod, Community connections, LGBTQ+, Middle-grade fiction, Poetry, Teaching, We Need Diverse Books
Getting an invitation to talk about children’s books and summer? No way I’d turn that down! I had the chance to join host Mindy Todd and Falmouth librarian Jill Erickson at WCAI-FM (Cape and Islands NPR station) recently, and we talked about so. many....
by Mary E. Cronin | Mar 29, 2016 | Cape Cod, Community connections, Middle-grade fiction, Poetry, Teaching, We Need Diverse Books
Raising a Reader! I’m offering this community education class in May 2016 at the Cape Cod Campus of Bridgewater State University. Raising a Reader is a non-credit course aimed at parents and caregivers who want to infuse a love of reading and books into their...
by Mary E. Cronin | Jan 21, 2016 | Cape Cod, Community connections, Prison writing project, Teaching, We Need Diverse Books
Like a plane coming in for a landing, I am settling back in to work and writing after the excitement of the holidays and a January trip to Ireland. Thanks to local arts funding, I will be teaching a new version of my creative writing class in the women’s unit of...
by Mary E. Cronin | Oct 20, 2015 | Conferences-workshops, Poetry, We Need Diverse Books
I’m still buzzing from a dynamic weekend in NYC. I saw family, covered a lot of ground (Bronx to the Battery!), and attended the Rutgers One-on-One Conference. The Rutgers One-on-One conference is a different kind of conference: it feels very focused, very...
by Mary E. Cronin | May 21, 2015 | Community connections, Poetry, Teaching, Uncategorized, We Need Diverse Books
I recently received a bundle of letters from the kids at St. Luke’s School in the South Bronx. I delivered a poetry presentation there in the spring, using Jacqueline Woodson’s BROWN GIRL DREAMING and Kwame Alexander’s THE CROSSOVER as mentor texts....