I gave a talk to students who are studying to become teachers at the University of Maine in Farmington at their annual Diversity Conference. At the same time, the New England Geographical Society was meeting on campus. And a part of that conference was a 20-foot inflatable balloon, hand-painted to look like a globe, and set up in the university gym. It happened that the talk I gave had the title, Center of the World. I’ve been fascinated by the Buddhist idea that wherever we are, anywhere in the world, we are in the center. Wherever we walk, everybody is walking in their own sacred space. Of course where READ MORE
The Verse Novel: Caroline Starr Rose
“Braiding the Verse Novel” is a series of interviews I did with writers of novels – and one biography – in verse. We had our conversations over the summer of 2012. I’ve written articles about verse novels for School Library Journal and NH Writer
which draw on these conversations in different ways. Here, I’m posting the generous responses from each of the writers who allowed me to ask them questions.Caroline Starr Rose, author of the award-winning middle grade novel May B.,takes readers into a culture of poverty on the Kansas frontier of the 1800s. Here’s our conversation.
Terry: Would you select a few lines from your novel and tell about a choice you made in the craft of those lines?
Braiding the Verse Novel: Margarita Engle
“Braiding the Verse Novel” is a series of interviews I did with writers of novels – and one biography – in verse. We had our conversations over the summer of 2012. I’ve written articles about verse novels for School Library Journal and NH Writer which draw on these conversations in different ways. Here, I’m posting the full responses from each of the writers who allowed me to ask them questions. READ MORE
Folktale Festival Picture Show
Hari Tiwari and Terry photo by Deb Cram
Here’s a photo gallery from our Folktale Festival celebrating The Story of a Pumpkin by Hari Tiwari. She told the story in her ELL class in Laconia, New Hampshire. It was a story her father told to her when she was a little girl. And now the New Hampshire Humanities Council has published the tale in Nepali and English with the help of the READ MORE
Braiding the Verse Novel: Carol Fisher Saller
“Braiding the Verse Novel” is a series of interviews I did with writers of novels – and one biography – in verse. We had our conversations over the summer of 2012. I’ve written articles about verse novels for School Library Journal and NH Writer which draw on these conversations in different ways. Here, I’m posting the full responses from each of the writers who allowed me to ask them questions. Nearly everyone who has read my novel, The Good Braider, asked me why I wrote in the spare lines of verse. My readers’ questions have caused me to explore my own craft and then to explore the question with these articulate, generous writers. Each week I will feature a new novelist.
Edide’s War by Carol Fisher Saller is a novel in poems. Each of Carol’s poems could stand alone as a character portrait or vignette. “A poignant look at boyhood before and during the long years of World War II,” writes Kirkus in a starred review.
