PILGRIMAGES: Mike Albo, “Writing Through the Roadblocks” (2/6)
Recently I was taking a trip with two fellow journalists. We chatted about what we have been working on. I mentioned I have written two novels and I can’t believe they ever…
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PILGRIMAGES: Mike Albo, “Breaking the Binary Literary System” (1/6)
Mike Albo is my humor spirit guide. To see Mike […]
DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “The Forces of Lehman and Sinatra Combine” (6/6)
For today’s post I want to circle back to where we began, with David’s recent book (now available in bookstores) Sinatra’s Century…
DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “If Two Heads Are Better Than One Then…” (5/6)
David Lehman loves wordplay. He loves writing poems in both traditional and invented forms. He takes the writing of…
DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “Man of Letters Part 2” (4/6)
Yesterday we brought you Part I of a two-part in-depth interview with David. It touches on many of the themes and subjects that have concerned David over the course…
DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “Man of Letters Part 1” (3/6)
David Lehman is truly a man of letters. He’s published 10 volumes of poetry, edited dozens of anthologies, including the Oxford…
DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “Sinatra’s Century” (2/6)
On May 14, 1998, I phoned David [Lehman] just as he learned of Frank Sinatra’s death. “I can’t talk now,” he said. “Sinatra has…
DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “Lehman’s Mind is an Arc” (1/6)
So happy and honored that David Lehman, the de facto dean of American Poetry is this week’s Featured Creative. Unlike so many…
DISCOVERIES: Olympia Stone, “On Film Festivals and Dealing with Rejection” (5/6)
One of the conundrums about making the films that I do is that I am making the films that I want to make—I’m not making them…
DISCOVERIES: Julie Flanders, “On Writing Lyrics” (4/6)
When I talk about writing, I do so to inspire other writers to create their own work. The one thing I wish I could offer to others would be to remember the thrill of writing, the…
DISCOVERIES: Julie Flanders, “Joyride (The Book)” (1/6)
Julie Flanders is a master lyrical shape-shifter. Over the years, her award-winning songwriting skills (honed since her teens) have morphed into related manifestations…
CREATRICKS: Tackling Overwhelm (Stress-Busting Summer Series #2)
Hey, are your shoulders tensed up to your ears? […]
CREATRICKS: Tackling Your Workspace (Stress-Busting Summer Series #1)
Like other animals, humans are greatly impacted by their […]
INTERDEPENDENCE: Cynthia Kaplan, “We Were the Donner Party” (6/6)
Sometimes the best way to get people to hear your music is to give them something to watch. I played this new song at gigs all winter, and I knew that if I didn’t make…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Cynthia Kaplan, “Kegger” (5/6)
I know that there must be women and men who stay home with their kids and crank out tome after tome or start foundations or make a mint selling quilts on Etsy. I, however…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Cynthia Kaplan, “A Squirrel Stores His Nuts” (3/6)
Some ideas are songs. That’s just the way it is. I wrote an essay for Organic Style Magazine about sex after childbirth. Not immediately after, but, you know, at…