by Mary E. Cronin | Mar 9, 2016 | Cape Cod, Community connections, Poetry
Poetry on the radio– it’s a perfect match. A poem can lift the spirits and light the way as we go about our day. My poem “Running in Flips Flops” was recently featured on our local NPR station’s Poetry Sunday series. WCAI-FM (Cape and...
by Mary E. Cronin | Feb 16, 2016 | Cape Cod, Community connections, Prison writing project, Teaching
Get people talking about the books they remember as children, and all sorts of things happen. The voice softens. There is laughter. The eyes look beyond, beyond the room to another place, another time. That’s what happened in the first session of my creative writing...
by Mary E. Cronin | Feb 3, 2016 | Cape Cod, Community connections, LGBTQ+, Middle-grade fiction, Tomfoolery
May the road rise to meet you, and the wind be always at your back. ~Irish Proverb Tomfoolery. It’s a word I love, and the title of the middle-grade novel that I’m revising and preparing to send back to my agent, Linda Camacho. Tomfoolery just received a...
by Mary E. Cronin | Jan 21, 2016 | Cape Cod, Community connections, Prison writing project, Teaching, We Need Diverse Books
Like a plane coming in for a landing, I am settling back in to work and writing after the excitement of the holidays and a January trip to Ireland. Thanks to local arts funding, I will be teaching a new version of my creative writing class in the women’s unit of...
by Mary E. Cronin | Aug 21, 2015 | Cape Cod, Community connections, LGBTQ+
Billy Porter was just in Provincetown for a three-night nightclub engagement. You know, the Billy Porter who won a Tony for the role of Lola in Broadway’s hit “Kinky Boots.” He sang with supreme confidence in a skirt, a killer hat and some kick-ass...
by Mary E. Cronin | Aug 1, 2015 | Community connections, LGBTQ+, Teaching, We Need Diverse Books
Have you heard about Rainbow Boxes? It’s a way to get sorely needed books into the hands of LGBTQ+ youth. Flashback to a scene in a middle school library about six years ago: the school counselor, who happens to be my wife, was showing me the section in the...