by Mary E. Cronin | Dec 3, 2021 | Poetry
Can you picture the house or apartment where you grew up? The texture of the couch, the sound of water in the pipes? Did the windows rattle, and what did the doorknobs look like? Can you draw a map of each room? So many sensory images come flooding back to me as I...
by Mary E. Cronin | Nov 5, 2021 | Poetry, We Need Diverse Books
I’ve learned so much about what it takes to put together a poetry anthology by taking classes from Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell. “Poetry PLUS” is one aspect of the art and craft of assembling an anthology that fascinates me as a poet and an educator. On the...
by Mary E. Cronin | Oct 22, 2021 | Poetry
It’s publication day for a very special poetry anthology for young children. THINGS WE DO is an alphabetic book of playful poems bursting with children in action– from Ask to Zoom! Each spread in this book features a vivid photo of a child doing something...
by Mary E. Cronin | Apr 16, 2021 | Poetry
Every poem is a blow against silence. ~ Carlos Fuentes *** “This is for the unforgettable… the ones who survived America by any means necessary. And the ones who didn’t.” Kwame Alexander’s book THE UNDEFEATED is an ode to the African American experience, a...
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...