Paul B. Janeczko, Author

Thanks for visiting my website.

I have been busy of late scheduling author visits for the rest of the school year and beyond. The big trip will be to New Jersey, where I grew up. I am calling the trip the Land of My People Tour, 2013, and, at this point, it’s going to be at least two weeks long. I have 8 school visits planned, from Sparta to Moorestown. Another 8-10 schools are mulling a visit, so I might add another few visits to the tour. In addition to the schools visits, I will be speaking at the annual conference of the NJ Council of Teachers of English at Montclair State University. Prior to my speech, I will receive the Muriel Becker Award, which is the organization’s award to an author for his/her body of work. I am thrilled to receive the award. The day after the conference, I will be reading poems from Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto at Yom Ha-Shoah/Holocaust Memorial Service at Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield. I am honored by the invitation to read. To see all the current stops on the Land of My People Tour, 2013, as well as other schools I will be visiting, go to my calendar page. You can see that I have opens dates in the spring, so send me an email if you’d like to discuss a visit. I’d love to hear from you.


And, if funding for a visiting poet is tough to get at your school, don’t forget that I can “visit” through Skype or FaceTime. Let me know if you’re interested, and I will send you an information sheet. Teachers and librarians seemed pleased with the Skye visits I’ve done so far. They liked the chance to have some Q/A time with an author.

I finally got the word that the e-book version of The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles is now available through the iTunes Store. I’m not gonna lie, it’s a kick to see my book on my iPad!

The February edition of Ask-A-Poet is available by clicking the link at the bottom of the page. This month I asked poets to name a few people they would invite to dinner if they could bring people back from the dead. The answers are wide-ranging, to say the least. Click below to find out who would like to dine with Walt Whitman, Cole Porter, and Senator Joseph McCarthy.

I’m happy to say that “Roscoe,” one of the poems in my 1989 collection, Brickyard Summer, will appear in The Bully, the Bullied, The Bystander, The Brave, an anthology that will be published by Rubicon Publishing, a Canadian publisher. I will post a copy of the poem on my Facebook page soon.

That’s the story. At least for now.