Suzanne Frischkorn's Blog, page 42

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I am a feminist because I recognize the label isn't going away; it carries a brave history and it has a future. I love the efforts those feminists made, however misguided or right on they got it over the years. Feminism is a past and feminism is a future. It's political.Though I'm no politician, I live in a world were my public persona carries real weight. Political implications. What I do

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Oh, oh you will be sorry for that word!Give me back my book and take my kiss instead.Was it my enemy or my friend I heard,"What a big book for such a little head!"Come, I will show you now my newest hat,An you may watch me purse my mouth and prink!Oh, I shall love you still, and all of that.I never again shall tell you what I think.I shall be sweet and crafty, soft and sly;You will not catch me

"There is a marvelous peace in not publishing," J.D. Sali...

"There is a marvelous peace in not publishing," J.D. Salinger told The New York Times in 1974. "Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure."

Goldman Sachs Arts Grants Online Application

Goldman Sachs Arts Grants Online Application

Sad News

J.D. Salinger, the elusive and enigmatic author of "The Catcher in the Rye," has died, The Associated Press reported. He was 91 and lived in Cornish, N.H.

Niiice

Check out Cynthia Cruz's amazing poem,Diagnosis in The New Yorker.

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i confess i want people to read my poetry book when it comes out but i also confess that i do become tired of people who only ever market their book and never want to discuss anything with you (via blog, facebook whatever the source is) except their book.there is nothing worse than meeting a writer at a gathering of some sort and the only thing they do is say hello and shove their book into your

Stain of Poetry

Don't let the winter get you down! Ride the snow yak into the sunset with Priscilla Becker, Laura Carter, Suzanne Frischkorn, Kate Greenstreet, Becca Klaver & D.W. Lichtenberg:January 22 @ 7 p.m. – Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, BrooklynwithPriscilla Becker's first book of poems, Internal West, won The Paris Review book prize, and was published in 2003. Her poems have appeared in Fence, Open

American Red Cross Pledges Initial $1 Million to Haiti Relief

American Red Cross Pledges Initial $1 Million to Haiti ReliefTo help, people can make an unrestricted donation to the International Response Fund at www.redcross.org or by calling 1-800-REDCROSS (1-800-733-2767). The public can also help by texting "Haiti" to 90999 to send a $10 donation to the Red Cross, through an effort backed by the U.S. State Department. Funds will go to support American Red

Perspective

I've had a weird relationship with writing from the beginning, since it has always felt like something that doesn't necessarily fit into my "real life"--there is "poetry life" where book contracts and rejections have weight, and then there is "real life" (work,family, my personal life) where those things all seem really small and insignificant compared to the things you do to live, to survive.