Shawn Kerivan

Shawn Kerivan

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Shawn Kerivan is a writer, teacher, and innkeeper in Northern Vermont.  He teaches English and creative writing at Community College of Vermont.  His first book, the short story collection Name the Boy, was published in 2007.  His most recent book is a memoir of innkeeping called The Innkeeper's Husband.  It's available through Amazon as a Kindle download.

A Penny for Your Thoughts

A Penny for Your Thoughts

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<p>Have you ever loved, been loved, been confused about love, or suffered from loss of love? All these feelings have been captured and shared in the words of heartfelt poems, compiled over many years by a former teacher and award-winning author.</p><p>Sherrill S. Cannon now shares her thoughts in this book of feelings. &quot;As a teacher, I used poetry to help counsel many troubled teens and friends, and have continued this pattern throughout the years.&quot;</p><p>There are three sections in her book: Heads, Spinning, and Tails ... (Love &amp; Loss: Coin Toss?). The variety of lyrical poetry forms include free verse, blank verse, haiku, and sonnets. Some poems are simply plays on words.</p><p><strong>A Sign</strong></p><p>In the depths of my winter</p><p>I heard a small bird -</p><p>Braving the cold,</p><p>Bringing the word.</p><p>He gave my heart hope</p><p>As I heard him sing -</p><p>Three little notes</p><p>Promising spring.</p><p>Sherrill S. Cannon, a former teacher and grandmother of 10, is the author of nine acclaimed rhymed children's stories that have received 48 national and international book awards between 2011 and 2017. Also a playwright with seven published plays for elementary school children, her works have been performed internationally in over 20 countries. Most of her children's books try to teach something, such as good manners and caring for others. Married for 57 years, she and her spouse are now retired, live in Pennsylvania, and travel in their RV from coast to coast, spending time with their children and grandchildren.</p><p><strong>Publisher's website: </strong> http: //sbprabooks.com/SherrillSCannon</p><p> </p>

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Read what others are saying about Name the Boy:<br /><br /><br />Shawn Kerivan’s Name the Boy is an emotionally raw, often cathartic collection of short stories about brotherly love, brotherly rage, and the sins of the fathers.  The combination of a delightfully droll voice and a hairpin storytelling style can give you the shivers.  This is a highly accomplished literary debut.<br /><br />~Richard Panek, author, Waterloo Diamonds, The Invisible Century and Seeing and Believing,<br /><br /><br />Name the Boy is peopled with boys trying to find their way in uncertain, unpredictable and sometimes-malevolent family and socio/economic settings. These stories, primarily of working people, of poverty, of alcohol, of violence, circle around and around the complex matrix of father/son relationships.  Shawn knows that we are not disembodied people, that we are created by our work, our worlds, our social status, and by the natural world around us, and all of that is right here in the stories, more or less causative yet always important, always central, always the context within which the often awful human drama plays itself out. <br /><br />~Nicola Morris, Ph.D.<br /><br /><br />Name the Boy will shake you.  These eleven short stories bear witness to fathers and sons.  There are horrors in this book and love that lives in a wide-open hand.  These stories have changed the way I see things.  Kerivan’s people move into your head and stay.  Their dialogue is relevant and their situations are both singular and familiar.  Shawn Kerivan is the man to watch.<br /><br />~Nancy McCurry, MFAW, Freelance Editor<br />