July 4, 1976, the United States celebrated its Bicentennial. In 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. As the N Y Times board blog says: “It makes sense to think of the Fourth of July as the start of a season and not as a one-day holiday moored off by itself. But […]
Click here to read a profile by Joyce Boatright that gives a snapshot of some areas of my writing life.
Story Circle Network National e-letter
July 2008, Vol. 9, No 7
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Write your hearts […]
Anais Nin, photo courtesy Maryanne Raphael
Maryanne Raphael has written and co-authored 10 books, short stories, poetry, and articles. You can read more about Maryanne and her work on www.authorsden.com/maryanneraphael. She says: “No matter what I’m doing right now, I would rather be writing.”
Anais Nin was important in my own life as a woman and […]
Poet Michael Castro is the founding editor and spiritual father of River Styx.
Since 1974 Karen Duffy has hosted literary readings at her Central West End restaurant, Duff’s.
Says Newman: “Our literary agenda is to promote accessible poetry. In the early ’90s, poetry had been taken over by academics. It was obscure, unmoving poetry, and it was […]
Click here to go to A. R. Crymes podcast from BEA (Book Expo America). Really good!
The three posts below are clustered.
Eugene B. Redmond is poet laureate of East St. Louis.
Drumvoices Revue is powered by Eugene B. Redmond.
The Kwansaba is a new poetic form invented by Redmond.
Then, there’s the Eugene B. Redmond creative writing club….!
The Kwansaba came into being as a praise song. Drumvoices Revue has used the Kwansaba form to praise Richar Wright (2008), Maya Angelou and Quincy Troupe (2007), Jayne Cortex (2006), Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez (2005), Katherine Dunham (2004), Miles Davis (2003). Outside of haiku and the blues, the Kwansaba is one of the most […]
My father woke up in the night last week with part of this poem in his mind and walked into his dining room office to write it down on a construction clipboard on blue-lined paper….which is where I found it when I came to visit.
As we chatted about it, I suggested it might be […]
Writing is an effort of untangling the skeins of thought.
Rather than rolling them up in a ball, all neat and tidy, the writer finds plain cloth to embroider them. With each strand of thought stitching through the other the writer makes a new design.
My sister and I embroidered in the back seat of the 1955 […]
William T. Dawson’s poem “Moonlighting” is a poem of an event from the 1980s (when some of us remember the recession). Dawson’s poem speaks to our times as hard times cycle back around. I asked William to tell us a bit about the context surrounding writing his poem. This is what he said:
I write primarily […]
