Poetry Category
The Smells of Autumn . . . How Do You Write About That?
By: shutta on: Oct 5,2009 In: Poetry, Random Thoughts, The Writing LifeIt’s the time of year when I feel a bit like Leo Lionni’s grasshopper. Fall has well and truly come upon us in Michigan. The soy fields are dry and golden, the Virginia creeper wound round our trees is scarlet and we’ve had our first frost. Yesterday I heard sand hill cranes and assumed I’d [...]
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- Tags: authors, autumn, children's writers, five senses, Michigan, poetry writing, Shutta Crum, writing about the senses
30 Days Later: The National Poetry Month Challenge
By: shutta on: May 5,2009 In: News, Poetry, Random Thoughts, The Writing LifeWell . . . 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 [...]
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- Tags: 30 days & 30 poems, National Poetry Month challenge, Writer's Digest Poetic Asides
Welcome . . .
Shutta Crum writes books for children and poetry for adults. She is also a storyteller, a lecturer and a librarian. In addition to her current eleven books she has three forthcoming books. Several of her articles about teaching and writing have appeared in professional journals. In 2005, she was honored by being one of eight authors invited to the White House for the Easter Egg Roll. In 2010 she was invited to tour Department of Defense American military base schools across Japan.
**Forthcoming!** Look for my new book, MINE! to make an appearance in June 2011. It is illustrated by the talented Patrice Barton and published by Knopf. 
Patrice Barton's website.
MINE! Book Trailer. Watch it here!
MINE! Book Trailer. Watch it here!
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