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AOTW: What are you working on now?
Betsy Franco: I'm working with a co-editor, Annette Ochoa, to compile poetry by Native American teenagers for another Candlewick Press anthology. I'm working on the editing stage of 100 Poems for the 100th Day of School for McElderry/Simon & Schuster, and I'm writing two innovative poetry books that stretch the notion of poetry.
Alan Katz: I'm Still Here in the Bathtub: Brand New Silly Dilly Songs --- a whole new collection of song parodies for kids. It'll be out next spring.
Robin Hirsch: A book of cafe stories, from 25 years of owning and operating the Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village, which, amongst many other things, has the longest-running continuous poetry series in New York City, if not the universe...
Sonya Sones: I'm working on a third novel-in-verse for teens. I don't like to talk too much about my stories while I'm in the midst of writing them, but I can tell you that it's about a very angry fifteen-year-old girl named Ruby, who has to move from the East coast, when her mother dies, to live with her father in Hollywood, who she's never even met. It's a book about things not being how they seem on the surface, about trust being broken, about learning to trust again. And I trust that all of you reading this interview will run right out and buy it as soon as it hits the shelves!
Mary Ann Hoberman: I am working on a sequel to one of my latest books, You Read to Me, I'll Read to You, and on various other projects.
Paul B. Janeczko: Right now I am working on a new books of poems based on a tragic fire in the big top of a circus in Hartford, CT, in 1944. It's a departure for me, writing poems that have a basis in historical fact. I'm also working on a new professional book for teachers, which will offer some suggestions about how to explore a poem, without gutting it with a word-by-word explication. I'm nearly finished with a book for kids in the Scholastic guides series, like my How to Write Poetry, but this one is about writing reports and essays. I am also working on a new poetry anthology. Because A Poke in the I was so warmly received, my editor at Candlewick Press asked me if I would do another collection with Chris Raschka. I jumped at the chance. So, Chris and I are working on a collection which will be a book of poetic forms. I'll select the poems and Chris will do his wonderful business with the illustrations. It will be a very cool book.
Marilyn Singer: I'm working on a collection of poems about water, a lyrical picture book about the Mississippi River, several nonfiction books about animals, and some short stories. My book Footprints on the Roof: Poems About the Earth (Knopf, 2002) has just been released. This fall, The Company of Crows (Clarion, 2002), poems about crows, will be published. Next spring, another book of my poetry about animals, Fireflies at Midnight (Atheneum, 2003) will come out. I guess it's clear that I really, really like to write poetry!
X. J. Kennedy: I wish I could claim I'm working on a new collection, The Lords of Misrule: Poems, 1992-2001, but that was finished last year and is coming out in September from Johns Hopkins University Press. Right now I'm working on my taxes.
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