Writing Process Tips by Damaria Senne
Damaria Senne, my blogging buddy and friend from South Africa, is adept at both professional and creative writing.
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Prose? Poetry? Who knows? My collaborator Stephanie Farrow and I have discussed this topic endlessly. Where is the line between poetry and prose? Is a story poem just prose with line breaks? Does a poem have to be obscure to qualify as art? I’ve explored these questions and many others with participants at conferences for…
“Absaroka: Where the Auguish of a Soldier Meets the Land on the Crow,” by Joan Bochmann
Yet another new book out from Janet Muirhead Hill’s Raven Publishing. Author Joan Bochmann got the idea for this novel when studying the history of Wyoming. A group of activists in Northern Wyoming attempted to carve out a new state they called Absaroka that included parts of Wyoming, Montana and South Dakota. Of course it…
National Poetry Month Poster 2010
Hurry, hurry! Request your poster by March 1st. The Academy of American Poets revealed the National Poetry Month poster for 2010 by award-winning illustrator and graphic designer Marian Bantjes, who recently created several campaigns for Saks Fifth Avenue. Bantjes’s intricate design features kaleidoscopic figures turning beneath a star-filled sky—a scene inspired by the poetry of…
13 Tips for Longevity and Health: “A tough old bird shows us how to fly.”
Here comes another present for my father’s 95th birthday November 9, 2010. My article “Erwin A. Thompson: A tough old bird shows us how to fly” has just come out under the “Inspiration” category in October’s “Recovering The Self:A Journal of Hope & Healing” Volume II, Number 4. Victor R. Volkman is the publisher for…
“Come Back Wolves: Western Writers Welcome the Wolf Home.”
Laurie Wagner Buyer is one of the Western writers who contributed essays to the anthology “Come Back Wolves: Western Writers Welcome the Wolf Home.” One of the reviewers of Comeback Wolves worded it this way: “If you believe that literature has the power to change the world, then you will love Comeback Wolves. It’s beautiful,…
Post-Apartheid: A White Woman and a Black Woman Walk Down the Street…It is Unremarkable.
A woman in an on-line group I belong to shared this comment with me: “I was at an Romance Writers of America party in the early ’90’s and we were talking about apartheid and a best selling author said, ‘What’s apartheid?’ It spoiled my whole concept of her.” I’d been noodling with how to re-commence…