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June 25, 2014
Seeing Your Own City Through New Eyes
When you help someone find a place to live in their new city – which happens to be the city you’ve lived in for over a decade – it helps you see your own city through someone else’s eyes. This week, my sister-in-law Loree has been touring neighborhoods in search of a home – at […]
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June 21, 2014
Through the Autoimmune Looking Glass, Lavender Cures All, Reading The Signature of All Things and Boy Snow Bird
I spent at least five hours of the last week in doctor’s offices. Sometimes this is because of “specialist bounce:” one specialist gets an idea that your symptoms exist because of another system’s (outside that specialist’s purview) errors, and sends you away to be someone else’s problem. It happens a lot. But this week, both […]
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June 11, 2014
The Importance of Your Writing Community – More Lessons from the Hunger Games, Catching Fire
It was just last night while reading some of the final letters of Flannery O’Connor (so sad to think about, that we see the end is coming and she keeps saying “I’m in no hurry to publish, I’ve got plenty of time…” and contemplating the Hunger Games (specifically, Catching Fire) that I was thinking about […]
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June 4, 2014
Polishing up the CV and looking to the future
So, I realized I hadn’t updated my CV in a little while, and I’ve now officially quit working for National as a poetry instructor, so I’m looking to new vistas and possiblities! Looking into teaching positions at low-residency MFA programs, querying agents about memoirs – I’m entering new territory! Nerve-wracking, but good! And it helps […]
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June 1, 2014
Beautiful Weather, Anti-’s last issue, The Rumpus Review, Summertime
My ankle was better enough to be able to hobble around well enough yesterday to get out and enjoy the perfectly beautiful summer weather – it does seem summer has arrived early here (it doesn’t usually happen til after July 4) – 72 degrees, a bright breeze, lots of wildlife scampering around. A perfect day […]
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May 30, 2014
Best Horror of the Year, Mid-American Review, and Cheer up, it could be worse, the joke
First, some good news. In the last two days I’ve received two lovely contributor copies, one of Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year anthology, in which I have a poem, “Introduction to the Body in Fairy Tales.” This is a great, eclectic collection of speculative writing, even if you’re not the typical horror fan. […]
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May 26, 2014
Thailand, Author’s Notes, and Query Letters
I spent most of this last Memorial Day weekend, frankly, trying not to think about bad news. My little brother is in Bangkok while they declared Martial Law, promptly had a military coup, and now have suspended the constitution. The misogynist shooting in Santa Barbara prompted strong responses from me, but I tried not to […]
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May 18, 2014
Skagit River Poetry Festival Report, Mark Doty on Routines
This year’s festival got off to an interesting start when the fundraising dinner they held on Thursday night began with me sitting next to Robert Hass, his poem and my poem from the anthology next to each other on beautiful broadsides at each place setting. Let me tell you, there’s no way to make you […]
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May 15, 2014
Skagit River Poetry Festival – Where I’ll Be
Off to the Skagit River Poetry Festival in La Conner, WA, on a beautiful sunny afternoon in the Pacific Northwest. If you want to see me there, you can catch me at: –Saturday – 1:30-3:00 Festival of Poets reading –Saturday 3:30- 4:45 Phyllis L. Ennes Poets reading and I’ll be otherwise hanging around causing mischief! […]
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May 13, 2014
Wisteria, New Genres, Skagit Poetry Festival, Mulling Medical Results
Starting out a post with a picture of blooming wisteria from Seattle’s Japanese garden. It’s been a thoughtful couple of days as I’ve processed the MRI results (the good news – it doesn’t look like MS, and the lesions haven’t spread. The bad news – it looks like an autoimmune disease is attacking my […]
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