Fullness and Emptiness/2
Before Carla’s presentation at the Peace Center Henry reminisced with me as we both ate tabouli and fries pitas “The first time I went to Guatemala I was there for a couple of weeks When…
Category: Writing
Powerhouse
Carol Becherer Wright sent me this notecard in the mail, said it reminded her of our writing classes, and how they’ve “made me who I am.” Notecard by Janice Scherer www.janicescherer.com
Found in a Summary of Allen Ginsberg’s Selected Letters
Saturday Sunny 21 February 2009 Dear Katie Murphy Would you take a ride with me On 55-South You pick exit We’ll find diner or truck stop We’ll take out notebooks Write in silence Then eat…
Last Session of Spring Writing Class
Katrina Becker, Carol Becherer Wright, Ron Laney, Fatima Rhodes, Chelsea Eva Jaeger, Susan Anning Clark, and April Ulinski–thanks for your creative camaraderie today at Cafe Ventana! Another wonderful class comes to an end. So I remember Thich Nhat Hanh says,…
Anne and Emma
–Anne Milne, 3.26.2015 Be in Love with Yr Life writing course DeMun Avenue/Clayton
One-Liners Randomly Culled from My Marked-up Copy of Natalie Goldberg’s Writing down the Bones
I have taught over 100 courses since 2001, and I assigned Writing down the Bones in almost all of them. I never tire of hearing the students read aloud her chapters, which contain lines like the following……
Dear Layla/Welcome to Palestine: Table of Contents
Part One Instant Message (4:32 a.m.) Part Two Cover Letter Part Three Roads/1 Modus Operandi/1 Invitation/1 Invitation/2 Lexicon/1 Being Present/1 What Some People Say/1 A Cup of Tea/1 (Fullness and Emptiness/1) Lexicon/2 A Little Taste/1
“Be in Love with Yr Life”*: A Spring Writing Course
Like Sontag and Beseda, many of us are tempted to be intolerant of the ambiguity and intimidated by the risks of photography and other art forms. Ultimately, I believe we are most daunted by the…
Gratitudes/937
It came to my attention Just in the last week or so That Tony Albrecht saw The Book of Mev on the Arandas’ bookshelves, borrowed it, and started reading it Abbie Amico is going over Faces of Poverty…
Tao of Writing
“When you accept writing as what you are supposed to do, after you’ve tried everything else–marriage, hippiedom, traveling, living in Minnesota or New York, teaching, spiritual practices–there’s finally no place to go.” –Natalie Goldberg, Writing…