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Writing’s the Thing
I’ve had this idea, since I was about ten, that I had to find my Thing in life. I had to find the role that would define me, that I could settle into, that would make my name known to the world. All...
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Order me some regular
Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert’s maxim caught me in it’s grasp when I first heard it in graduate school. It...
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Order me some regular
Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert’s maxim caught me in it’s grasp when I first heard it in graduate school. It...
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Sonnet of Ipecac
The late great Herb Scott taught me a lot about poetry during my days at WMU. Two things he said always stick with me. “Everyone has their throwing-up poem,” and “I’m not interested in poems about...
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Shameless Self Promotion
I’ve been really happy with the feedback I’ve gotten from this blog. In the effort to further puff up my vanity, I have started another new blog. I’m an MFA graduate and frustrated poet. I’ve been...
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Writing as Therapy
If writing is so therapeutic, why are there so many miserable writers? When I was earning my creative writing degrees, the idea of writing as therapy was anathema. The phrases “navel gazing,” “mental...
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Writing Sporks
Despite being a lifelong writer, I have not published often for the same reason that plastic sporks exist: fundamental resistance to difficulty. A plastic spork says both I do not want to wash...
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