This coming Saturday, I will be presenting my “Writing with Emily Dickinson” talk at the South Whatcom branch of the Whatcom Public Libraries. Here’s a link, and I very much hope that you can join us. (The address is 10 Barn View Court, Sudden Valley, Gate 2 Bellingham, WA 98229.) Writing with Emily Dickinson Bethany Reid is […]
I am a great lover of writer prompts, and I seem to have accumulated a dozen books of them. Books that I almost never open… This year, however, I’ve had a major realization around writing prompts. My realization began with my new little poetry project that builds on my old one-bad-poem practice. I was doing […]
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin
So here it is, January of the New Year. I have a few resolutions I’m working on, and someone suggested that I reframe why I set them, and that conversation got me thinking. Then, at Writing Lab today, one of our writers admitted that she doesn’t write very much, even though she’d like to, because […]