Zero Gravitas

Still Available on Amazon Barbara Lydecker Crane has been creatively amusing herself all her life. Growing up in Short Hills, N.J., she was equally drawn to writing and art. Pursuing the latter, she majored in it at Skidmore College, where her senior project included a small edition of an original book entitled A Child’s Garden of Curses. Barb worked as a graphic designer and then for twenty years as a fabric artist, creating one-of-a-kind landscape quilts. In 1995 she was awarded a New England Foundation for the Arts Regional Fellowship in Visual Arts. Her quilts have been widely exhibited in group and solo shows, and are in corporate, museum and private collections. To fend off the doldrums of New England winter in 2005, Barb took a poetry workshop given by Tom Daley that rekindled her fascination with wordcraft. Using rhyme and meter, she now delights in writing poems in both humorous and serious veins, usually for adults and sometimes for children. In 2007 she founded “X.J. Kennedy