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The Problem with Laura Ingalls Wilder: part 1, Legacy
Why was the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award renamed the Children’s Literature Legacy Award? It has to do with being eight years old.
Great Friendship Tales: Provence, 1970 Book Club—The Writing Question
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Great Friendship Tales: The Power of Sam and Frodo Starts With Tolkien
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Pod Club Announcement: Listen with us to Radiolab’s “Memory and Forgetting”
Join us for our next Pod Club discussion over Radiolab’s “Memory and Forgetting” and discuss how memories are formed, erased and altered.
Marjorie Maddox and “Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation”
The poems of “Transplant, Trnasport, Transubstantiation” by Marjorie Maddox take us to the world of change and loss, and what sustains us.
Writing Prompt: Play With Your Food
Creative nonfiction writer, Callie Feyen, takes help from poet Tania Runyan to write food poetry. Come along and craft your own poem or story—purple carrots optional!
Children’s Book Club: “Two Friends, Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass”
Drink tea, change the world. Join us for a Children’s Book Club discussion of ‘Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass’ by Dean Robbins, illustrated by Sean Qualls & Selina Alko.
Memoir Notebook: Three Summers, Part One: The Seed
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Great Friendship Tales: Provence, 1970 Book Club—Friends With Edges
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A New Exhibition: Tolkien and the Making of Middle-earth
A new exhibition on J.R.R. Tolkien has opened at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the catalog book is a treasure in and of itself.
Poetry Prompt: Find a Farm Skeleton
Creative nonfiction writer, Callie Feyen, takes help from poet Tania Runyan to try to write farm poetry. Come along and craft your own (with or without the talking goat.)
Reading in the Wild: July’s Pages
Come learn the secrets of being a wild reader. Or just share your July pages. Megan Willome leads the way, with her July wild reads.
Commit Poetry: Romeo & Juliet’s Two Households
Sandra Heska King winds up her memorization of selections from Romeo & Juliet among crayfish and shoulder-high ferns, considering the divisions of two houses.
TSP #1: Luci Shaw Talks Friendship, Freedom, and Love in a Golden Box
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Pod Club: Hidden Brain’s “Watch Your Mouth”
In this week’s Pod Club discussion, we consider the way that language shapes the way we think and perceive the world (rather than the other way around) with Hidden Brain’s interview with cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky.