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When a Poetry Workshop becomes a Slam

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...

Talking about summer reading on NPR!

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....

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