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May 1, 2012

Lunch-Break Rendezvous to Celebrate the Feast of the Flowers

    Let’s all ditch work today and celebrate the Feast of the Flowers!  …Okay, okay, I’ll behave.  I’ll take a nice long walk through the park during my lunch break for Protomayia (May 1).  Now that the weather’s warming up, I use my lunch break to get a little sun on my face, stretch [...]
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Published on May 01, 2012 03:00

April 30, 2012

Thesis!!

I’ve got army print nail polish on to tackle my thesis!!   Filed under: Writing Tagged: beauty, my writing
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Published on April 30, 2012 03:00

April 27, 2012

Mark Your Calendar: MFA Thesis Reading

It’s been posted in the Appearances section for a while now, but in case you missed it I’ll be reading from my MFA thesis at The New School on Friday, May 11.  The readings begin at 5pm and will go til about … 9pm.  It’s going to be a long night, but you’ll get to [...]
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Published on April 27, 2012 19:48

April 26, 2012

Photos of the Burnside Writers Collective at FFW

front, right: Jordan Green, Editor in Chief. middle row, left to right:  Kim Gottschild, managing editor; Diane Nienhuis contributer (and personal website) back row, left to right: Stephanie Nikolopoulos, visual arts editor; Larry Shallenberger, contributor (and personal website) left to right: Larry Shallenberger, contributor; Kim Gottschild, managing editor; me.   Left to right: Me, Diane [...]
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Published on April 26, 2012 03:00

April 25, 2012

Clip: On the Road with Bob Holman

My Q&A with poet Bob Holman is up on BOMBlog!!  We chat about wayward camels, the resurrection of the Hebrew language, the Greek word “poesis,” the UN, griots, and endangered languages.   Filed under: Clips, Endangered Languages Tagged: Bomb, camel, endangered languages, griot, UN
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Published on April 25, 2012 03:00

April 23, 2012

The Distance Between Me and Me

  I recently workshopped a new memoir chapter I had been working on, and it wasn’t until after I left the workshop that it occurred to me that perhaps the distinction between the author and the narrator had gotten jumbled in the evaluation of the piece. I don’t enjoy self-deprecating memoirs, but I had written [...]
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Published on April 23, 2012 03:00

April 20, 2012

Quotes about Place

  Every story involves place, whether real, imagined, or seemingly absent.  Place isn’t just a physical location, it’s a feeling, a memory, a metaphor, a symbol. My writing has always centered around place.  My memoir is a complicated look at what home means.  It’s about how even for people who live in the same house [...]
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Published on April 20, 2012 03:00

April 19, 2012

Michigan Writers

Do you think writers are defined by where they were born?  Where they live?  By whether or not they’ve moved?  By how much they’ve traveled? Yesterday, I wrote about how at the Faith & Writing Festival Circle we’ll be discussing is the idea of how where you write can actually affect your writing.  Today, I’m [...]
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Published on April 19, 2012 03:00

April 18, 2012

Places to Write, Drink Coffee, and Buy Books in Grand Rapids

As most of you know, at the Festival of Faith & Writing I’ll be leading a Festival Circle called Holy Grounds: The Role of Place in Your Spiritual and Literary Life.  One of the things we’ll be discussing is the idea of how where you write can actually affect your writing. We’ll be talking about [...]
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Published on April 18, 2012 03:00

April 17, 2012

Church Hopping at the Festival of Faith & Writing: Calvin College Chapel

I’m getting excited for the Festival of Faith & Writing!!  I’m so looking forward to catching up with all my friends from the Burnside Writers Collective, some of whom I haven’t seen in years and others whom I’ve never met before.  We’ll have a booth so please do stop by and say hello!  I’m the [...]
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Published on April 17, 2012 03:00