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What, Why, How: Cathryn Cofell

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I’m a businesswoman trapped inside a poet. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it. I’m a poet trapped inside a businesswoman. Or is it the other way around? Simply trapped. I’m two women in one body. Think Freaky Friday but only one brain. What poets might call a C-lister. Author of one full-length collection,Sister Satellite, and six chapbooks of poetry. Well known in my home state of Wisconsin, to lessening degrees beyond. Huge potential, but . . . Or, what business professionals migh...

Not Everyone Appreciates the Arts: Defunding the NEA

Someone on Twitter tried to shame me for supporting the arts.

On the day of the inauguration, NBC News tweeted “Got something important to say to President Donald Trump? Tweet your expectations to @NBCNews with #DearMrPresident.” So I wrote about the National Endowment for the Arts:

$700 billion and 5 million jobs is nothing to sneeze at, and this is a president who is supposed to be all about jobs.

I Drink Liberal Tears (I’m not kidding– that’s his profile name)tagged me in his tweet:

I tw...

Did you know these emotions actually have names?

Have you ever felt monachopsis?

I have! I bet you have, too.

Thislist of unique, strange and unsettling, but common emotions was compiled by , via the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. They seem oddly fitting for the dead of winter.

1. Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

2. Opia: The intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

3. Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being o...

Poetry at The Farmhouse in Franklin, MI on January 19th

Join us for an evening of kick ass poetry & prose

at The Farmhouse in Franklin, MI! I’ll be reading with a group of amazing writers that you won’t want to miss. Come early, grab a bite to eat, and sit back to enjoy. The quaint town of Franklin is easy to get to — it’s just a little north of 696 and west of Telegraph.

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What, Why, How: Sue Barnard

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If you include those compulsory “Composition” exercises at school, I suppose I’ve been dabbling with writing for as long as I can remember: short stories, poems, articles, and the occasional stroppy letter to The Times. But it was around ten years ago, following a life-changing event which could easily fill an entire book on its own, that I began to take my writing more seriously. That was when I set myself the challenge of writing a full-length novel.

The eventual result was The Ghos...

What, Why, How: Janeen Pergrin Rastall

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I live on the shoreline of Lake Superior. My first chapbook, In the Yellowed House was about an imaginary family living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In particular, it was about young women living in a rural, male dominated culture. My second chapbook, Objects May Appear Closer, was a tribute to my parents, to our childhood in the fifties. Heart Radicals is a collaborative book of modern love poetry. In my most recent work, I have returned to the voices of the women of the U.P. So...

A Worthwhile New Year’s Resolution

Have you made your New Year’s Resolution? Is it something you even think about? Most peoplekeep their resolutions to themselves, and they focus on self-improvement — which probably explains why they don’t follow through.Nearly half of all Americans make resolutions, but only 8% actually follow through.

In The Huffington Post, Abigail Williams writes about her resolution from 2016: I Read 52 Books This Year. Here’s What I Learned.

It was well worth her while

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What: Freelance journalism and creative non-fiction Why: ...

What:

Freelance journalism and creative non-fiction

Why:

I worked in the corporate world for over 20 years but never felt I was in the right field. It didn’t help that Oprah and her ilk were always saying things such as, “Live your best life now.” But there I was, stuck in a job that felt MEH…though in hindsight I developed many great work skills, said Pam, from the sunnier side of the street.

How:

While working, I started writing as an outlet for my frustrations. Folks in writing groups cate...

What, Why, How: Kristin Bartley Lenz

What: A friend emailed me the other day to say she ordered 17 copies of my book to give as gifts. Seventeen!?!She wanted to know when she could stop by my house to get them signed. Please, I will come to you! . Friends have shown up at yoga class and soccer games with copies of my book to sign. Book clubs have selected my book, posted fun photos on Instagram, and asked if I could meet with them. Librarians and teachers have popped up on Twitter and Facebook. A high school student made a than...

Bandit: A Daughter’s Memoir by Molly Brodak

Bandit, a Daughter’s Memoiris such an exceptional memoir that I’m not sure I can do it justice.

Memory comes back to us in bits and pieces, discordant vignettes that we try to stitch into a narrative that makes sense. Poet Molly Brodak spillsall she has about her family history and her place in this narrative, beginning with the first thing she had stolen as a child — a book of baby names — that her father made her return.Ironic, when you consider that a few years later he started robbing ban...