Shutta Crum

Thunder-Boomer! Shutta Crum’s newest book is getting starred reviews.

Well . . . I did make it through the 30 Days, 30 Poems (& 30 Forms)* challenge for National Poetry Month with some semblance of a brain left over—I think. And though there were many days I would come home late and still have to check in to get the prompt, I could usually [...]

 
I thought I’d take a few moments to catch my breath and make a few comments about what I’ve gleaned, thus far, from participating in the Writer’s Digest National Poetry Month challenge. Robert Brewer, who blogs for WD at Poetics Aside, challenged poets to respond to a given prompt everyday for 30 days—thus creating 30 [...]

 
I love reading—it’s an obsession of mine. But I also love hearing the written word spoken. Last night I attended one of the many poetry readings being held around the country in honor of National Poetry Month. This one was at the Ann Arbor District Library and featured poet Robert Fanning.  (One of the founders [...]

Shutta is challenging herself to 30 poems in 30 days written in 30 formats. Yikes!

Things to do for Poetry Month

It started off with a visit to Abbot School in Ann Arbor—2nd and 4th grades. So much energy, fun, and many good questions! I loved it. I left the older kids with snippets from SPITTING IMAGE and the new book I am working on, THOMAS AND THE QUEEN OF THE DRAGONS. “That’s so unfair,” they [...]

Writers are human, after all.  We can’t always come up with the perfect title, nor remember to use the delete key when we should. Along these lines, I offer here some info about, and a couple of links to, great lists. One is the annual “Oddest Title of the Year” list and the other is [...]

A belated Yay!  Slumdog Millionaire did well at the Oscars.  Based on a novel, it truly is a writer’s kind of movie. [See my earlier post for a review ... Jan. 29th. ]
8 awards, all the major ones: best picture, directing, adapted screenplay, original score, film editing, original song, sound mixing and cinematography.
It just goes [...]

I read Neil Gaiman’s THE GRAVEYARD BOOK on a flight to Florida recently, and enjoyed it very much. I’ve not been a big Gaiman fan in the past—though I did find CORALINE interesting reading. The man is a wiz at creating suspense.
 
Being a librarian, I’m also especially curious about the buzz a book gets. [...]