Who, me?
Once again, Snape is right. I am up to something. Somethings, actually.
Thursday: I'm taking my wonderful mother-in-law to Camden County Community College in the evening. They're having a free series of lectures on Jane Austen. This week, it's the current Eastern PA Regional Coordinator, Elizabeth Steele, whom I'll be replacing come April. After the lecture, some tea with Elizabeth.
Friday: Leaping lizards! I'll be hosting the leap day edition of Poetry Friday right here at my cozy little blog. I expect about a million poems to come in for linkage, and I'm already starting my post (folks have started posting really, really early for Poetry Friday lately!)
Sunday: Hi Mom! I'll be on television. Maybe. I'll be answering telephones with fellow Jane Austen Society members at the local PBS station, at any rate, and there are supposed to be something like 10 breaks during my 3-hour shift (damn, that's a lot of breaks!)
April: Yeah, it was a bit of a leap, but hey - this Saturday it'll be March. The first weekend in April, I'll be at the local JASNA region's meeting where, if all goes according to plan, I will stage a coup I will be elected as the next Regional Coordinator.
The second weekend in April will find me in Nashua, New Hampshire at the New England SCBWI Conference. The theme of the conference this year is "Stretch Your Wings". The keynote speakers are Laurie Halse Anderson and Kevin Hawkes.
Saturday morning, April 12th, you can find me at the conference teaching a double session on writing poetry using forms. The seminar is going to be a practicum, by which I mean that attendees will actually do some writing during the course of the class. Here's the actual course description:
Learn how to take wing as a poet through the use of poetic forms. Discover how working within the restrictions of various poetic forms can actually free your thinking and help you branch out into more creative and original poetic expression. This workshop will include hand-outs as well as hands-on practice, and participants will have completed at least four draft poems by the end of the day.
Later in April: I've agreed to do classroom visits for the first grade at a local elementary school as part of their observation of National Poetry Month, with a focus on helping the kids learn to write their own poetry. It should be lots of fun. It will also be interesting teaching both adults and very young kids how to write poetry within the same month. My guess is that the kids will be less inhibited, and louder.
Thursday: I'm taking my wonderful mother-in-law to Camden County Community College in the evening. They're having a free series of lectures on Jane Austen. This week, it's the current Eastern PA Regional Coordinator, Elizabeth Steele, whom I'll be replacing come April. After the lecture, some tea with Elizabeth.
Friday: Leaping lizards! I'll be hosting the leap day edition of Poetry Friday right here at my cozy little blog. I expect about a million poems to come in for linkage, and I'm already starting my post (folks have started posting really, really early for Poetry Friday lately!)
Sunday: Hi Mom! I'll be on television. Maybe. I'll be answering telephones with fellow Jane Austen Society members at the local PBS station, at any rate, and there are supposed to be something like 10 breaks during my 3-hour shift (damn, that's a lot of breaks!)
April: Yeah, it was a bit of a leap, but hey - this Saturday it'll be March. The first weekend in April, I'll be at the local JASNA region's meeting where, if all goes according to plan, I will stage a coup I will be elected as the next Regional Coordinator.
The second weekend in April will find me in Nashua, New Hampshire at the New England SCBWI Conference. The theme of the conference this year is "Stretch Your Wings". The keynote speakers are Laurie Halse Anderson and Kevin Hawkes.
Saturday morning, April 12th, you can find me at the conference teaching a double session on writing poetry using forms. The seminar is going to be a practicum, by which I mean that attendees will actually do some writing during the course of the class. Here's the actual course description:
Learn how to take wing as a poet through the use of poetic forms. Discover how working within the restrictions of various poetic forms can actually free your thinking and help you branch out into more creative and original poetic expression. This workshop will include hand-outs as well as hands-on practice, and participants will have completed at least four draft poems by the end of the day.
Later in April: I've agreed to do classroom visits for the first grade at a local elementary school as part of their observation of National Poetry Month, with a focus on helping the kids learn to write their own poetry. It should be lots of fun. It will also be interesting teaching both adults and very young kids how to write poetry within the same month. My guess is that the kids will be less inhibited, and louder.