This is a question I’ve been pondering for some time now, and today I found an interesting post on another wordpress blog titled red Ravine that tackles the same issue from a different persepctive. I fear the comment I left behind was rather long, though I hope my fellow blogger takes this as a compliment! [...]
Archive for July, 2009
When is One a Regionalist?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Year on the Wane
Posted in Uncategorized on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’re officially over the hump of summer. It feels like the beginning of the school year is creeping up quickly, and there are all those things I’d planned to get done in July…what exactly happened to July? I’ve always had mixed feelings about this time of year. The evenings are beautiful, the prairie flowers and [...]
Alice Notley: Trance and Tarot as Writing Process(es)
Posted in Uncategorized on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My friend Eric emailed me a link to Mary K. Greer’s blog a while back, where she discusses poet laureate Kay Ryan’s use of the tarot as a daily writing exercise (see link to right). In that blog post, Greer links to an interview with Alice Notley from PhillySound: New Poetry, in which she discusses [...]
Michael Perry & the Fear of Pink Palms
Posted in Uncategorized on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently finished reading Michael Perry’s memoir Population: 485, which meditates on his return to New Auburn, WI, his adventures as a volunteer firefighter and first responder. As a Midwestern writer, I am thrilled to have found Perry, whose next book, Truck: A Love Story, is already on my nightstand. Perry’s voice is candid, at [...]
Research as Motivation
Posted in Uncategorized on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As early as last summer, I began noticing that I was collecting water imagery. It showed up in notebooks, in my journal. And this year, as I pulled some poems from my manuscript and began re-visioning the collection, I saw echoes of it in the older poems. A new thread had surfaced in the book, [...]
A Reading by Ted Kooser
Posted in Uncategorized on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ted Kooser recently picked up one of my poems from Blue Collar Review titled “Bankruptcy Hearing” to reprint in his column American Life in Poetry (see the link to the right). Below is a wonderful video of one of Kooser’s readings. Kooser is a Nebraska native and has been hailed as a voice for rural [...]
On Writing Dates & Aerobic Linguistics
Posted in Uncategorized on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the last two weeks, I’ve been experimenting with writing dates, during which I agree to meet my friend Katie, a fiction writer working on the draft of her novel, at a coffee shop and write. We don’t talk much. We don’t review each other’s work. We just…hold one another accountable. If I know someone [...]
