National Poetry Month is coming soon... "Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies...." ~Denise Levertov, "A Walk through the Notebooks"

Since the last blog post was Read, Read, Read, I thought it might be important to have a conversation about what books we read. I found this great article on banned books. Book Banners Finding Power in Numbers. What do … Continue reading →

"Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the most. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find … Continue reading →

Write every day...Be true to yourself..... This quote popped up on Twitter today, and we thought we'd share it: “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its … Continue reading →

This is an excerpt from the writing exercise at the end of Carole Maso's essay "Image Assignment" from the book NOW WRITE - NONFICTION edited by Sherry Eliis. "Write five separate prose pieces in which the only thing the pieces … Continue reading →