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Last month we excerpted a blog entry from Away With Words, professional name developer Nancy Friedman's website on naming and copywriting. We had to revisit her when we read a recent entry titled "What Not to Name the Baby." Nancy says "naming a baby is not all that different from naming middleware, perfume or a venture capital firm." Why? Read the entry here.
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What books should your kids read? Just ask Betsy Bird. As a senior librarian at The New York Public Library's Donnell Central Children's Reading Room, she talks to parents and kids of all stripes about great reads. When she's not at the library, she's blogging on A Fuse #8 Production, her popular website dedicated to children's literature. And when she's not blogging, she's on the radio, talking about kids' books on NPR. All this as "a mere slip of a 28-year-old." We called Betsy for a book-filled conversation about children's lit:
VT: Do you still remember the books you read as a kid?
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Betsy Bird, the remarkable and passionate children's librarian we spoke to this week about great children's books, tracks the latest kid's literature at her job, and on her blog, the well-thumbed (virtually speaking) A Fuse #8 Production. Here are fifty or so of her favorites published this year. She reads them all, so she knows!
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Veneta Masson has practiced nursing for 35 years, mostly in inner-city Washington, DC. Along the way, she found an outlet to express everything she was witnessing and experiencing -- poetry. Veneta started putting together essays and poems about her nursing life and today has two collections in print, Ninth Street Notebook (short pieces) and Rehab at the Florida Avenue Grill (poems). She's also part of a community of nurses who write verse influenced by their profession. Call them Nurse Poets.
VT: How did you get started writing poetry?
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I love the name Blackbelly because it's mysterious -- some people suspect it's erotic, some that it's racist. It is, in fact, a breed of sheep with black bellies that hails from Barbados. Like my protagonist, Chas McPherson, I raise Blackbelly sheep. He raises them for meat, but I just use them to keep down the blackberries on my Oregon farm.
I was working on another novel (my fourth unpublished) when I woke up in the middle of the night compelled to write Blackbelly . When people ask me where my ideas come from, I have to say they come straight out of the darkness like a bolt of lightning. Or, at least the best ideas do. There was a connection in Blackbelly that was more personal to me than just the fact that I raise sheep, though it wasn't evident until I'd finished the first draft. That's when, stepping back, I could see the web of themes I'd knitted together and their striking relevance to my life: faith vs. religion, sin and forgiveness, prejudice and rural Idaho.
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by Jonathan Allen
by Suzy Becker
by Lauren Child 
by Kelly Cunnane
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, both edited by Cortney Davis and Judy Schaefer, were published by U. of Iowa Press. They include nurses' stories in both poetry and prose.
was edited by Judy Schaefer and consists of poems and commentary by fifteen nurse poets.
