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Writer's Island: June 2014
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Writing • green beans • fiddle • life. Sunday, June 29, 2014. Tupelo’s 30/30 Project: Off to the Marathon. Starting this Tuesday and continuing all through July, I’ll be taking part in a public poetry spectacle: Tupelo Press’ 30/30 Project. This is Tupelo’s ongoing fundraiser where a handful of poet volunteers bravely (stupidly? Write a poem a day for a month and post each day’s work on the 30/30 website. Why on Earth did I agree to do this nutty marathon? 1) Tupelo Press is worth supporting. Last year I...
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Writer's Island: June 2015
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Writing • green beans • fiddle • life. Sunday, June 21, 2015. My love affair with Moby-Dick. Began in kindergarten. That sounds like the start of an awkward joke, but it’s true. My mother was a fan of “accelerated learning.” She felt that kids should start reading much earlier than the school system recommended in the 1960s, and I was her guinea pig. When I was three, she stuck flashcards all over the house, labeling every object— sofa. Trouble was, I never read it. I couldn’t. On there. I had to lau...
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Writer's Island: EVENTS
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Writing • green beans • fiddle • life. Upcoming Readings and Events. Oregon Poetry Association Conference. Friday–Sunday, September 30–October 2, 2016. 8226; • • • •. Ashland Book and Author Festival. Saturday, October 8, 2016, 10:00 am–4:00 pm. Hannon Library, Southern Oregon University. 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, Oregon. Http:/ hanlib.sou.edu/bookfest/. 8226; • • • •. Poets Michael Spring, Judith Arcana and Amy Miller. Thursday, November 3, 2016, 7–8 pm. 290 E Main St. Dancing Moon Press, 2013) won ...
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Writer's Island: July 2014
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Writing • green beans • fiddle • life. Tuesday, July 29, 2014. 30/30 Project, Day 29: When Prose Turns Poetry. One more day to go on the Tupelo Press 30/30 poetry marathon. One more poem to write. As usual, I have no idea what it will be. Another useful tidbit learned from this poetry marathon, and something to try again later. Thursday, July 24, 2014. Tupelo Press 30/30 Poetry Project, Day 24:. This time she showed up right in the middle, when I still had a lot of marathoning to do. I didn’t even ...
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Writer's Island: March 2014
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Writing • green beans • fiddle • life. Sunday, March 30, 2014. Case Study: Publishing a Chapbook. With Amazon’s CreateSpace. All those nights when you can't reach me? I'm making these things. DVDs I’ve got to admit that, even for an independent-bookstore lover like myself, it was all weirdly attractive. Enter the guinea pig. Editing—in my house, anyway—. Still takes paper and patience. For my test case, I decided to do an expanded version of my book Beautiful Brutal: Poems About Cats. The moment of truth.
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Writer's Island: September 2014
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Writing • green beans • fiddle • life. Sunday, September 21, 2014. One Book, Two Takes: Gone Girl. A few weeks back, my friend and fellow writer Wendy Ledger mentioned that she was about to read. Gone Girl , a blockbuster novel that’s about to be made into a movie. I was looking for something to read too, and I had an idea: What if we both read. Gone Girl , and then each wrote a short, personal review of it? And what if I posted both reviews together on my blog right here? Broadway Books, 2012. In the no...
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Writer's Island: October 2014
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Writing • green beans • fiddle • life. Sunday, October 19, 2014. Book review: The Last Policeman. 9733; ★ ★ ★ ★ The Last Policeman. 9733; ★ ★ ★ ★ Countdown City. 9733; ★ ★ ★ ★ World of Trouble. The last time I read a trilogy was probably in the 1980s— Dune. Or something. I don’t have the attention span for them anymore, and there are so many great novels waiting to be read that I rarely stick with any author for more than one book, let alone three. For this trilogy, I made an exception. That he’ll ...
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Writer's Island: August 2015
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Writing • green beans • fiddle • life. Friday, August 28, 2015. The Long and Short of Postcard Poems. This month's haul, as of. August 28th. Go, Group 3! This year more than 200 people signed up to do the Fest, and the structure was a little different than in past years, thanks to organizer extraordinaire Paul Nelson. Or even our local NaPoWriMo group. Shorts get the short end. Right Hand Pointing’s sister site, White Knuckle Press, has a series of fantastic online chapbooks, all consisting of shor...
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Writer's Island: House Hunters vs. Home-Buying Reality
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Writing • green beans • fiddle • life. Saturday, January 3, 2015. The other day I woke up thinking about my mortgage, drowsily dreaming up ways to pay it off early (freelance jobs, MacArthur Genius Grant, selling my organs). Suddenly I had a woozy, out-of-body feeling: Whoa. I thought, I own a house. But the truth is, I didn’t just march out and do it. It took me years to screw up the courage—years and a lot of homework, including watching many, many episodes of House Hunters. Did provide me with some in...
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Writer's Island: Book Review: American Neolithic
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Writing • green beans • fiddle • life. Monday, February 16, 2015. Book Review: American Neolithic. C&R Press, 2014. I love a literary mashup, whether it’s Ben Winters’ end-of-days murder mysteries. Or Kirsten Bakis’ feverish mix of Frankenstein science and pop culture. So when I received a review copy* of Terence Hawkins’ new sci-fi legal thriller, American Neolithic. I tore into it with relish. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My writing has appeared in Rattle. And Asimov's Science Fiction.