Four spots open in each of our two remaining one-day workshops next month – I’d love to see you there. Check them out here. Long ago, I went to look at a little house for sale on a lake. My realtor and I showed up at the appointed time but the homeowner was still there. She … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Robert Hedin
Two spots open in our Freedom of Form workshop tomorrow, and five spots each in our two remaining one-day creative writing workshops next month – I’d love to see you there. Check them out here. Me talking to me: Alison! For God’s sake, respond to all those piled-up emails. Clean up the kitchen. Teach yourself the … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Hailey Leithauser
Check out my one-day creative writing workshops this month and next – spots are still open in most of them and I’d love to see you in one! Last Monday my daughter and I sat side by side on a gray couch, both of us working on our laptops while rain poured down the windows. … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Grace Cavalieri
Spots are still open in most of our one-day workshops this fall – maybe you should treat yourself to a class! Check them out here and let me know if you’re interested. I’d love to see you in one. When I first read this poem, by the wondrous Ada Limon, it turned me still and focused … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Ada Limon
If you’re interested in taking one of my one-day creative writing workshops this fall, you can check them out here. In grad school my stories often came back with margin notes like Repetitive; you’ve used this word three times in two sentences and Transition needed here and Let the reader know how this was done or … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Jane Kenyon
If you’re interested in taking one of my one-day creative writing workshops this fall, you can check them out here. It’s busy here at poetry hut central. Poems are disappearing at a rapid clip and we have to keep up, printing, scrolling and rubber banding new ones while bingeing shows. When I’m on the porch, which … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Gunter Grass
If you’re interested in taking one of my one-day creative writing workshops this fall, you can check them out here. Every day my goal is to get to Amazing in the New York Times spelling bee game (I don’t care about Genius). The other night, at dinner with friends who also love the Bee, I told … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Betsy Franco
(Note: I only write about books I love.) The Book of Delights, by Ross Gay. I’d dipped in and out of this book before, but finally read it straight through, essayette to essayette, until all the essayettes were gone, kind of like I do with the bags of Lindt milk chocolate truffles I buy and … Continue reading August 2021 Books I Read and Loved
If you’re interested in taking one of my one-day creative writing workshops this fall, you can check them out here. Words by Winter: my poetry podcast My dog is perfect at being himself. He twirls madly at the sight of his food bowl, springs straight up when he sees a favorite human, sprawls belly-first when he … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Andrea Cohen
My poems podcast, Words by Winter, can be found here. In order of preference, here are my spoons. 1. The wood-handle spoon. 2. The all-silver spoon. 3. The red spoon. 4. The green spoon. 5. The blue spoon. (The Chinese spoon doesn’t count because I only use it for soup.) I detest the blue spoons, but they … Continue reading Poem-like Prose of the Week, by Annie Dillard
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Waking Up to Your Dreams
On James Baldwin and Diverse Literature
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Objects, Memory and Meaning
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