I’d love to see you in the Zoom room, January 7-13, in our first-ever, informal, kick off the new year with joy and freedom Write Together session! Seven days of morning and evening prompts, join in for any or all. Each session recorded in case you can’t make it. Click here for all the details. One of my … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Octavia Butler
Here’s a non-list-of-resolutions way to celebrate the baby new year and your own inner dreams: Join me in the Zoom room, January 7-13 for our first-ever Write Together session! Seven days of morning and evening prompts, each unique, each created to unlock unknown worlds within. It can be so comforting to write together, for ourselves, without expectation … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by George Kalogeris
Click here for all the details of my brand-new January Write Together week-long session. I’d love to see you in the Zoom room. This past week I deleted a couple of no-longer-functional emails from my Poem of the Week subscriber list. As I was scrolling through the long list, addresses of passed-on friends flashed up … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Anni Liu
Click here for details and to register for this Thursday, November 17’s Memoir in Moments evening workshop and January’s Write Together week-long session – I’d love to see you in the Zoom room! Once, just out of college, I went to the movies with a friend. In the pocket of my jeans were nine dollars – a … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Ross Gay
Still room in tomorrow’s The Art of Writing Picture Books, Tuesday’s The Intuitive Leap and other workshops! Click here for all the details – I’d love to see you in the Zoom room. A while ago I was out doing errands, heading to places I haven’t been in a while: Turtle Bread Bakery, Great Harvest, the … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Robert Okaji
Ever wanted to write a picture book? Join me on Zoom next Sunday afternoon, November 6, for a nuts and bolts workshop on The Art of Writing Picture Books. Click here for details. I’d love to see you in this or one of my other workshops! All my life I’ve dreamed of flying. Just me … Continue reading Poem of the Week (excerpt), by me
I’d love to see you in my January “Write Together” session or one of my half-day workshops next month. Find all the details here. When I was young I felt desperate sometimes, desperate to escape my own grief, spiraling thoughts, panic, pain. Drugs aren’t something I’ve ever done but I understand the wild impulse to get … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Ellen Bass
Friends, want to write together this January on Zoom? One hour both morning and evening, 14 sessions total, January 7-13, 2023. Join for any or all fourteen sessions! Each unique hour will open with a brief reading and a prompt designed to wake up the magical inner writer. This is a play-around-and-take-risks-and-see-what-you-come-up with week inspired … Continue reading “Write Together” in January, 2023
Sign up here for one of November’s workshops: The Intuitive Leap, The Art of Writing Picture Books, Memoir in Moments. I’d love to see you in the Zoom room! The food shelf three blocks north is extremely busy these days. People trundle down the sidewalk with wheeled carts holding brown paper bags of food or load … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Ruth Awad
Please check out my half-day and Writing Together offerings – I’d love to see you in the Zoom room! A few days ago I was on the phone with my sister, telling her a true-life tale from a few months ago. She started laughing so hard she had a coughing fit (always my goal). Then she … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Dorianne Laux
a journal of growth, change & experimentation
Reflections from an Older Perspective
Goodies from my mailbox and camera
Telling all sides of the parenting story
Waking Up to Your Dreams
On James Baldwin and Diverse Literature
Putting those recalcitrant toddler cancer cells to bed...
your own PDK for writing
a collection of beautiful words.....
Objects, Memory and Meaning
If it can't be said in a hundred words, then it can't be said in a thousand.
sewing a handmade wardrobe
"drink from the well of your self and begin again" ~charles bukowski
Musings on poetry, language, perception, numbers, food, and anything else that slips through the cracks.
Alison McGhee 