I was so thrilled to get to review this book by fellow Wisconsin writer Nickolas Butler, and for Wisconsin People and Ideas magazine.
It’s a good one, so please check it out! Then check out Butler’s Little Faith, which is one of my favorite Butler novels of all.
Read the review here: https://www.wisconsinacademy.org/magazine/fall-2021/book-review/godspeed-nickolas-butler
March 4, 7:30 pm, online
I’ll be talking with homeschooling parents about helping kids learn to love reading and writing. Join me!
I’m still trying to help my own child learn to love reading and writing (even to like it?) but I’ve learned a few things from hearing young people reflect on their own literacy journeys as they begin college. Some of the things that emerge are 1) let kids read anything they love (Neil Gaiman has a great lecture on this “Why Our Future Depends on Libraries, Reading, and Daydreaming” and 2) recognize/count everything as reading and writing. In game video chatting? Watching a movie with subtitles on? Reading the McDonalds drive thru menu? Recognizing all of these moments as part of children’s developing literacy is also to acknowledge that reading and writing are useful in world and part of how we interact in the world.
I’ll work on adding to these ideas before and after this Aim and Flourish discussion!
https://www.aimandflourish.com/tabletalks
Join me April 20, 2021 at 7 pm for my UWSP at Wausau Hank Talk on what I’ve learned about making poetry films, including a debut of one of my own.
Saturday, Feb. 27, 1 – 2:30 pm
Join me in an upcoming Intergenerational Writing Workshop through Write On, Door County
This online workshop is ideal for a grandparent and grandchild team to sign up to work collaboratively—even if they’ll be joining the meeting from different states! Registration is free.