It's April -- a tribute to e.e.cummings

It’s April

and i don’t write poetry

any more

  by Juliann L. Caveny

After the whirlwind month of March (in which I read and devoured hundreds of picture books in quest of dozens that would become my mentor text for writing--ReFoReMo) I have entered April with yet another picture book in my hands to review and savor. This narrative nonfiction biography, enormous SMALLNESS by Matthew Burgess, was published in March 2015!

enormous SMALLNESS

is a book 
about e.e.cummings,

my writing idol,

my mental-mentor,

my favorite poet

in the whole

wide

world.

I ordered this book

it's bought and paid for

it is 

MINE.

I read it

and reread it.

and hugged it

many times

and will again

tomorrow.

Why? you ask.

You don’t write poetry.

No,

i don’t write

poetry

any more

than i don’t write

picture books.

but I wrote

three picture books

last March
& one poem
today.