Megan Falley's Blog, page 70

laurenbedfordrussell:About to shoot a lil something for...

laurenbedfordrussell:

About to shoot a lil something for #girlongirlmovie girlongirlmovie.com

Lauren stays killing it.

rachelmckibbens:My TEDx talk where I discuss Anne Sexton,...

rachelmckibbens:

My TEDx talk where I discuss Anne Sexton, overcoming the shame of mental illness and the lessons I learned from the revolutionary poets of PS 811.

"I forgive myself for how I marinated in hate for these women, how it made us the same. How I..."

“I forgive myself for how I marinated in hate for these women, how it made us the same. How I breastfed this anger like my only child. How I expected it to nurse me back. How I considered the gun before the white flag. How an olive branch almost became a bat. I am melting my brass knuckles down to tiny trumpets. I am singing this forgiveness song over and over, until I believe it.”

- MEGAN FALLEY, “Shoot Her" (via headupandholy)

Only 2 spots left in my online course! E-mail...

Only 2 spots left in my online course! E-mail MeganFalley@gmail.com ASAP for more details/request an application!

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writebloody:by the fantastic Jeanann Verlee, from Racing...

writebloody:

by the fantastic Jeanann Verlee, from Racing Hummingbirds

let's write together

I am 10 weeks into teaching my first online writing course “Poems that Don’t Suck" and am getting verklempt reading some of my student’s final poems. I feel blessed to be a witness and a guide in their growth since before class began. I was super nervous about teaching a class for more than just a two hour workshop. There were some students who dropped the class (mostly I think they were not expecting the demands of an intensive writing class) but the ones who stayed and put all of themselves into it have grown like forest fires. I am so excited to see their names pop up in literary journals in the coming years.

That being said, I am going to make some adjustments to “Poems That Don’t Suck" based on suggestions from students/what I noticed as an instructor, and teach the course again to a fresh batch of writers! Many of you have expressed interest. Maybe you are involved in a writing/poetry scene and know some writers who would benefit from an intensive writing and reading course. If you are interested or know someone who might be, please pass this along! Class will start Monday, August 19th and I’ll be accepting applications until August 5th. MeganFalley@gmail.com

"Stories never really end…even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don’t..."

“Stories never really end…even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”

- Cornelia Funke (via elige)

"I’ll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only..."

“I’ll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”

- Cheryl Strayed

you better act right or jea will cut you.

you better act right or jea will cut you.