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In two weeks, I’ll be heading up to New Hampshire for the Keene State College Children’s Literature Festival.
Look at the fabulous lineup of children’s authors and illustrators who will be the featured speakers this year:
Lita Judge
Beth Krommes
Lois Lowry
Katherine Paterson
Jane Yolen
Festival Information
Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009
Place: Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire
Conference Registration: $72
Lunch: $8.00
Daily Schedule: Click here.
Registration Form: Click here.
In two weeks, I’ll be heading up to New Hampshire for the Keene State College Children’s Literature Festival. Look at the fabulous lineup of children’s authors and illustrators who will be the featured speakers this year:
Festival Information
Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009
Place: Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire
Conference Registration: $72
Lunch: $8.00
Daily Schedule: Click here.
Registration Form: Click here.
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I contributed this owl painting to the Keene State College Children's Literature Festival coming November 1, 2008 in Keene, NH. He's just little - only about 6" x 6" - acrylic. The "frame" is part of the art.
I wrote two poems this week. One of them you can see here, at the crazy-fun "15 words or less" challenge that Laura Purdie Salas hosts each week. The other was the first sonnet in the crown of sonnets that I'm creating with Kelly Fineman, Laura Purdie Salas, TadMack from Finding Wonderland, cloudscome from a wrung sponge, Liz Garton Scanlon, and Tricia from The Miss Rumphius Effect. You can't see it yet, because we're going to unveil all seven sonnets at once and charge admission! No, not really, but we do want to present them together, so you can wear the crown with all its viewpoints and experience its corona as "many lights as one."
I wrote my sonnet curled up on the couch on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Some things I discovered:
1. Pie is very inspirational.
2. Trust the first image that comes to you, no matter how crazy. For me, it was shoelaces.
3. You are the boss of rhyme. It is not the boss of you. Didn't your momma tell you that?
4. Sonnets aren't extinct for a reason. They're hardy, and won't die in your rough care. They're like the giant bear of an uncle who lets all the little kids pile on in football.
5. Second helpings of pie are even more inspirational.
6. So are long walks.
7. Iambic pentameter is your favorite aunt talking. She's easy to listen to, and she can count cards and make you look good when she's your Euchre partner after dinner. And she brought the pie, so thank her.
8. The sonnet form will hold your thoughts, but like a shopping bag, you have to open it up and dump stuff in. Later, you take take out your purchases, one by one, and see what fits.
9. Don't be fooled. Not everything fits. Return the baggy sweater. If you're not sure about the pleather pants you found on sale, ask your sister. She'll tell you. (Or Liz, my poetry sister!)
10. Sonnets are better than pie. I hate to say that, but the pie is all gone. The sonnets are just getting started.
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You get the best events in your area. I need to move to MA! I so wish I could attend. You will report back, right?
Tricia,
By all means--move up to Massachusetts. You'll like it here--especially in early autumn.
BTW, Melissa Sweet is going to be the featured speaker at our reading council's fall dinner meeting. I'm looking forward to that event on November 4th. Grace Lin is coming too.
I had planned to go out to the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst and the Michelson Galleries in Northampton today for a special celebration of Tomie dePaola's 75th birthday--but I'm a bit under the weather. So it goes.
Have fun at the festival this year! If I wasn't under such a deadline right now I would come up and join you.