After Our Friends arrived, we took them to Burger King for the cinnamon-bun breakfast and along the way, showed them our skyscrapers and cars, several war zones and exploding beached whales, plus all that pollution and the Beijing women bending through morning exercises— the usual signs of a modern society reflecting upon itself, lamenting all […]
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I left McCarthy late last week, Juneau-bound for 49 Writers meetings. With other stops along the way, it’s proven to be an inspiring whirlwind. I head back to the Wrangells filled up by this huge place full of creative, hardworking artists, where even the distances that separate us are wild and beautiful. I arrived in
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Wendell Berry wrote, “The impeded stream is the one that sings,” and I have to admit the first time I read that I thought it was a bunch of hooey. After all, one of the things that lead me to write poetry in the first place was the fact that I could ignore grammar and
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A poem’s form consists of the structural “rules” concerning elements like meter, rhyme, alliteration, or repetition. Each poetic form is like a different shaped vase into which water (language) can be poured. Each form has its own particular way of shaping meaning and progressing through a thought. Each has a unique system of organization and
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“He loved Big Brother.” “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” “How can we know the dancer from the dance?” “Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” “Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I
I’ll admit that I never really nailed all of the grammar rules until I became a high school English teacher. I firmly believe that the best way to learn something deeply is to teach it to someone else. Good teachers spend time considering their subject from all angles, pulling it apart, and putting it back
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Thank you to author and columnist Elise Patkotak, who closed our spring Reading & Craft Talk last night at Great Harvest Bread Company by sharing her wit, wisdom—and serious side, as well as talking about her experiences with self-publishing. Thank you too to the couple dozen people who forsook the sunny spring evening outisde to
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