
MARCH 2013
In March I attended the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) in Boston and got to learn a lot of things! I went to see Jeanette Winterson speak, and actually got to HEAR her utter this quote: “If a fascist regime kills a fifteen year old girl for wanting to learn how to read, then they know something about books that we have forgotten.” With inspiration from AWP, I decided to construct my own online poetry course and call it “Poems That Don’t Suck.” On a whim (and in the last few minutes of it being open), I decided to submit to Write Bloody Publishing’s Open Book Contest.
(Here is a photo of Miles & I at AWP with our favorite publisher, Derrick Brown!)
Published on December 30, 2013 20:01