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Course Descriptions 2019-2020
People have been asking me what I am teaching next year–here are the course descriptions. These are slightly different than what was posted in the actual calendar. Over the next year or two themes of discussion will include Literary Identities, how we see ourselves and our relationships to institutions and communities. Strategies of creative resistances…
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Expressway Book Trailer
I’ve been finding all sorts of documents and random files as I try to rebuild my own files after a series of technical mishaps that may or may not have had anything to do with having twins a month before taking over directorship of Writers Read, publishing my first novel, and dealing with the ongoing…
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On TeethMarks
Well, at least I am on point. I believe I did this interview around 2007. It concerns my second book, TeethMarks, published in 2004. The interview finally appeared in print in 2014. I just found this email in my trash. Why it seemed to drift to the top of my trash this week I have…
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Merci Room of One’s Own
I published my first (or second…) poem in Room Of Own’s Own some…omg…some…thirty years ago? Is that possible? Must be. I was chuffed then and I’m chuffed now with this review from Adele Barclay. Thanks Room, thanks, Adele, thanks to all who have read and read poetry and respond.
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The Next Chapter
In a marvel of editing, the CBC posted a little over three minutes on the process of writing My Ariel. This content is at least six months old. 2018 was a difficult year and I have not been able to adequately respond to anything publicly. I’m very aware. So I do appreciate the opportunity. Also…
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On my rewrite of Plath’s “Cut”
This was fun. Talking with Al Filreis and (the lovely and amazing) Anna Safford earlier this year…during one of the busiest weeks of my fall season, which is partly why my New Years Resolution is better self care along with more activism from the large to the small. I’ve put the original version of Plath’s…
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from The Endurance
ROLL CALL You who were not born in a boat. You who can not tread water. You who do not qualify for safe passage. You who are without a compass. You who cannot take the air between your hands and feel the ions of improbability. You who have not stepped out of the satin shadows.…