Reading Journal 2023 – A gifted book of Patchett essays in which the 2nd essay, The Getaway Car may drive you back to writing. My niece, Harper
One thing leading to another is the case when reading about an unearthed time capsule brings me back to Thaddeus Kosciuszko. Last Thursday, August 31st,
STONES, BY KEVIN YOUNG – POEM BY POEM Hum I am learning how to sleep again, to love the descent, or is it, lying here,
DRYSALTER – POEM BY POEM The Poem — Hymn to the Faces. Hymn to the Faces A wall of photographs from nowhere, overnight gallery
GOLDEN SLIPPERS: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers Poem: Youth Poet: Langston Hughes (1901 – 1967) Editor: Arna Bontemps Publisher: Harper & Row
A NEW CATEGORY – POEM BY POEM More than a year ago, I published a This ‘n That piece about a new category called The
MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE The Poem: February by Margaret Atwood Winter and time to eat fat and watch hockey. In the pewter mornings, the cat,
HOLIDAY SHOPPING MESSAGE – 2020 First of all, my holiday shopping message is to thank all of you readers who have visited Bookin’ with Sunny
PUSS IN BOOKS, SANS BOOTS Charles Perrault‘s Master Cat has nothing on Bookin’ with Sunny’s California Callie. Our Callie traded her boots for books
Combining Like Terms By Brandy Burgess “All human wisdom is contained in these two words – Wait and Hope. For all evils there are two
ONLINE AUTHOR EVENT – BAD INDIANS Today’s pandemic stay-at-home order means many families must deal with online schooling for their children. Back in April 2013,
IN ANOTHER COUNTRY POEM BY POEM The poem: Prognosis An old man alone in a house full of books who spits in the sink
THE FACT OF A DOORFRAME POEM BY POEM Storm Warnings The glass has been falling all the afternoon, And knowing better than the instrument What
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Is it true that Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad “traces the terrible wounds of slavery,” as Michael Schaub wrote
ECOLOGY TALE FROM STAMFORD CT The Story of Little Pumpkin and his Pop in Stamford, CT Little Pumpkin: Wow, Pop, they finally took us out
The Poet’s Corner – Poem by Poem The Poem: Next Time When I come back I want to be a rock – Liza Weary of
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