Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Let's Put on a Show!

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Big news…channeling Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland’s foolhardy, can-do, crazy, enthusiastic energy, I am launching an online literary journ...
Thursday, September 1, 2011

Work in Progress: What I'm Thinking About Today

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From the poem “Berryman,” by W.S. Merwin I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you c...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Read Ms. for a NYC Literary Agency

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Okay, no money involved, but this would be a great experience for the right person, reading kids’ books for a New York literary agency…and y...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

DC Writing/Teaching Residency for Poets

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Hey, poets—come to DC for a year with this teaching/writing residency: For appointment beginning in the fall of 2012, we seek a poet to tea...
Monday, August 29, 2011

Richard Goodman's Beautiful New Book

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Richard Goodman—who has written several pieces for this blog—reports that The New York Times wrote a lovely column about his newest book, T...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Work in Progress: Can You Tell a Student Not to Write About That?

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I have a question that I’ve been pondering—and I’ve been pondering this for a long time, so if you’re a current student of mine, please don’...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Everyone Talks About It, But No One Does Anything About It

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The weather.   How interesting to come across not one, but two calls for submissions about weather-related work: SOU’WESTER, a literary jou...