It was March, and in the morning darkness, the birch trees that lined the trail stood like ghosts in the snow. I say ghosts in part because I wasn’t wearing my glasses (they fog up in the cold, making the world blurry anyway), but also because the birch’s presence felt palpable, haunting. Enticing. Am I […]
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Oh the Places We Go: Writing the Place-Based Essay or Story with Daryl Farmer Wednesdays, September 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2022 7 PM – 8 PM AKDT Via Zoom $70 Members | $85 Non-Members This class takes place on more than one date (September 7, 14, 21 & 28) but must be registered for
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Oh the Places We Go: Writing the Place-Based Essay or Story with Daryl Farmer Wednesdays, September 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2022 7 PM – 8 PM AKDT Via Zoom $70 Members | $85 Non-Members This class takes place on more than one date (September 7, 14, 21 & 28) but must be registered for
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Oh the Places We Go: Writing the Place-Based Essay or Story with Daryl Farmer Wednesdays, September 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2022 7 PM – 8 PM AKDT Via Zoom $70 Members | $85 Non-Members This class takes place on more than one date (September 7, 14, 21 & 28) but must be registered for
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Oh the Places We Go: Writing the Place-Based Essay or Story with Daryl Farmer Wednesdays, September 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2022 7 PM – 8 PM AKDT Via Zoom $70 Members | $85 Non-Members This class takes place on more than one date (September 7, 14, 21 & 28) but must be registered for
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This short piece reprises part of Daryl Farmer’s talk earlier this month in Anchorage, part of 49 Writers’ Reading & Craft Talk Series at Indigo Tea Lounge. The event was occasioned by his new book of stories, Where We Land. Tension, I tell my students. Dramatize, give your characters conflicts for them to resolve. This
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Tomorrow, my wife Joan and I will begin a slow drive south, to Anchorage and then the Kenai. Homer is the destination, though not really the point. I often create this way. In motion, my mind clears, and, as in sunlight after a storm, worlds both fictional and real reappear. At every stop, I pull
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“Genuine poetry can communicate before it’s understood.” T.S. Eliot Earlier tonight, I sat at a table with four poets. They are each successful and brilliant, and each came to poetry in their own unique way. One of them stumbled into a prestigious graduate program only after dropping out of school. “The last thing in the
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Daryl Farmer I’m in Seattle joining the hordes as we ride the escalator to the top floor of the Washington State Convention Center. This is AWP, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs annual Conference and Book Fair. The conference is a writer and book lover extravaganza: panels, speakers, readings, social events, literary journals
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There’s still time to register for Christine Byl’s workshop tomorrow, Saturday, Feb. 15, 9am-1pm, “Lyric Tinkering: The Poem as a Tool for Prose Writers. Click here for more details and to register. In this class, you’ll explore the poem not as a final product but as a process and a tool, one that can sharpen,
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