{"id":4868,"date":"2019-05-03T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T06:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2019-05-05T09:12:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T15:12:36","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-susan-l-roth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4868","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at <em>Kirkus<\/em> This Week,<br>Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Susan L. Roth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/birds2large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/birds2small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;Where do we get our ideas? We get them from the spaces we choose for our compositions, from our chosen materials, and from the world around us.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge illustration)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nToday over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I&#8217;ve got a poetry anthology from Shannon Bramer. <\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/poetry-motion\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last week, I wrote <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/birds-eye-view-artistic-process\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3266\">Susan L. Roth&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Birds of a Feather: Bowerbirds and Me<\/em> (Neal Porter Books\/Holiday House, May 2019). I&#8217;m following up today with some art from the book. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/birds1full.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/birds1left.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/birds1full.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/birds1right.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/birds3large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/birds3small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;&#8230; and we both hope that our finished works are much greater<br \/>than the sum of their parts.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/birdscoverlarge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/birdscoversmall.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge cover)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>BIRDS OF A FEATHER. Text and illustrations copyright \u00a9 2019 by Susan L. Roth. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Neal Porter Books\/Holiday House, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Where do we get our ideas? We get them from the spaces we choose for our compositions, from our chosen materials, and from the world around us.&#8221;(Click to enlarge illustration) &nbsp; Today over at Kirkus, I&#8217;ve got a poetry anthology from Shannon Bramer. That is here. * * * Last week, I wrote here about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}