Kathleen Witkowska Tarr

Literary Roundup | March 15-21, 2019

Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming details on the following exciting 49 Writers programs: ANCHORAGE | Writing the In-Between: Hybrid Forms and Generating Drafts with Nicole Stellon O’Donnell Saturday, April 13, 9:30 AM—12:30 PM | Anchorage Community House, 3502 Spenard Rd, Anchorage, AK 99503, USA Sometimes a draft makes immediately clear whether it wants to […]

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Literary Roundup | March 8-14, 2019

Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming details on the following exciting 49 Writers programs: JUNEAU and ANCHORAGE | Writers, Seekers, Pilgrims: A Session on Thomas Merton taught by Kathleen Witkowska Tarr Juneau: Friday, March 8, 2019 | 5:30 – 9 PM at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church library. Anchorage: Saturday, May 4, 2019 | 2-6 pm at Anchorage Community House3502 Spenard Road,

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Literary Roundup | March 1-7, 2019

Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming details on the following exciting 49 Writers programs: JUNEAU and ANCHORAGE | Writers, Seekers, Pilgrims: A Session on Thomas Merton taught by Kathleen Witkowska Tarr Juneau: Friday, March 8, 2019 | 5:30 – 9 PM at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church library. Anchorage: Saturday, May 4, 2019 | 2-6 pm at Anchorage Community House3502 Spenard Road,

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Guest Blogger Kathleen Witkowska Tarr | Writing Toward a Twenty-First Century Counterculture

Merton’s coming to Alaska in that beast of a year, the “year of everything horrible” as he referred to it, is a little-known, under-told story. The publication of my book, We Are All Poets Here, coincides with the 50th anniversary of Merton’s Alaska journey, which also happens to be the 50th anniversary of his death. Alaska was one of the last places on earth he saw.

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Guest Blogger Kathleen Witkowska Tarr | A Harvest of Wisdom—Lessons from a First Book

A Harvest of Wisdom—Lessons from a First Book I signed the contract for my first book in an east Anchorage home exactly one year and ten months ago, on December 16, 2015 at 10:30 p.m. in the middle of a Christmas party while nervously sitting in the host couple’s master bedroom. During the holiday cheer

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Guest Blogger Kathleen Witkowska Tarr | Listening to a Literary Monk

Listening to a Literary Monk: Balancing Writing with Silence Thomas Merton chose to live on the margins. As an isolated Trappist monk, he joined a strict and austere religious order as a deep and profound act of cultural resistance. He entered the Abbey of Gethsemani on December 10, 1941 at age 26, a newly confirmed

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Guest Bloggers Olga Livshin and Kathleen Tarr – Anna Akhmatova: Disaster Did Not Wither Her

Photo courtesy of Igor B. Runov View of Moscow street taken in January 2016 where Anna Akhmatova admirers have spray-painted her image and fragments from some of her earliest poems across a wall. Translation of above poem: “I was brazen, angry and funny I didn’t know at all this was — happiness.” —from By the

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