Lily Iona MacKenzie's Blog, page 29
March 30, 2020
The Poetry in Dreams
I’ve been thinking a good deal about dreams and the role they play in our lives. I’ve also been thinking about how they relate to poetry. When I was teaching freshman expository writing classes, many students admitted having trouble reading poetry. I discussed this difficulty with them. “Why,” I asked, “in a class of twenty […]
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March 23, 2020
Dreaming in the age of Corona Virus
In a recent dream, I’m standing on the street outside the Crescent Confectionary in Calgary, the city where I grew up. The place is lit from within. A couple sits at a table next to the window, eating. I feel like the little match girl, on the outside, looking into this place where I once […]
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March 16, 2020
Make your blog posts come alive with hyperlinks!
Thanks to author Bobbie Kinkead for sharing the following post with me and my viewers! When interviewing an author on CWC Berkeley, (CWC = California Writer’s Club) have many links included in the blog post. The author can then post the author’s interview on their blog or website for their audiences to read. Most writing […]
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March 9, 2020
Is it possible to out Iago Iago?
I’m usually not drawn to a book series, and the only reason I chose Edward St. Aubyn’s The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels is because I got a great introductory deal from Audible. All five of these books were on one tape for the same price I would have paid for a single audio edition. The Scot in […]
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March 2, 2020
The link between visual arts and writing: Interview with guest artist Betsy Kellas!
If you’re used to me posting something about reading and writing, you may be wondering why my guest interview today is with the visual artist Betsy Kellas. The reason? I think there’s a strong link between painting, sculpture, art installations, and written art, poetry and prose. Both use the line intensively though differently. Both intensely […]
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February 24, 2020
The Writer as Traveler
My husband and I like to travel when we have the time and money. We’ve managed to visit St. Petersburg, Moscow, the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, Marrakech, Fes, Rabat, Istanbul, the entire Aegean/Mediterranean coast off Turkey, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, and many other countries. I enjoy these excursions because they take me into physical and […]
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February 17, 2020
Words as Animals!
I recently read the book Words as Eggs by Jungian analyst Russell Lockhart. The idea for the work, and the chapter from which the title comes, originated in one of Lockhart’s dreams. A voice in his dream said, “Do you not know that words are eggs, that words carry life, that words give birth?” (92). Lockhart later […]
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February 9, 2020
Bursting through barriers to story
I’ve been so busy taking care of marketing demands for my three novels (Fling!, Curva Peligrosa, and Freefall: A Divine Comedy), and finishing up the creative writing workshop I’m teaching at the Fromm Institute of Lifelong Learning, that I haven’t had time to write new material, fiction or otherwise. Prose, especially non-fiction, is easy for me to […]
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February 3, 2020
The Imagination = Fountain of Youth
“Logic will get you from point A to point B, but imagination will take you everywhere” – Albert Einstein. I’ve been thinking about the importance of imagination not just as a writer and reader but also as a survival tool. And I wonder how and when this faculty first appeared. Of course, when discussing imagination, creativity […]
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January 27, 2020
What’s in a word? Our democracy!
Words–their origins and meanings—have been on my mind a lot lately, not surprising for a writer. So, when I was thinking of the word compromise the other day, I wondered why the ultra conservatives and their representatives in Congress abhor it. For more insight, I turned to the Oxford English Dictionary so I could get closer […]
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