I have a couple of friends who tell me that they are thinking of putting together a book. I’m thinking of putting together a class (fall?) for how to put together a book. None of us seems to be making much progress toward our intended goals. How to begin a book is how you begin […]
A friend, a former student from my college teaching days, has been revisiting her goal of writing her memoir and she’s been sending me pieces of it. I have loved her story, and her writing, from the time I first met her, and I love it still. But when she said she was back at […]
I was browsing through Poetry Daily and clicked on a link to this article, by Sandra Lim, and found this image: Having just spent February writing peace postcard poems and sending them out daily (yes, that is a thing), having spent a good deal of my adult life obsessing about Emily Dickinson, I felt as […]
I have been working on taking deep breaths that go all the way down through my toes and back up through the crown of my head. I have been reading poems because it is National Poetry Month and each morning copying someone’s poem into my journal then writing my own “bad” version of it. I […]