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Author Archives: susan
REALITY?: Swinish Flu-like Fever
Been pretty much flattened out for the last several days by swollen glands in my neck and the resulting soreness and pain there, in my throat, in my ear, and all topped with a headache that makes my scalp sore … Continue reading
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WRITING: Finding the Edge
Well without the self-confidence I only sent out that recent story on the Shoebox to two lit journals and figured I’d wait again till September (amazing how fast deadlines go by) and read some work by Anthony Varallo published by … Continue reading
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WRITING: That last-minute voice of reason
Here I am, letting myself get to the deadline of submission dates for stories and immediately after sending out to two lit journals, I read the story again and absolutely hate it. It’s too long; it’s too short. It’s got … Continue reading
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POETRY: National Poetry Month
The snicker paces, stabs its saber of long-toothed loss of faith at all the plastic daffodils in an attempt to free itself, escape and even so there is a dumbness to it, that poetry relives itself hiding in a fat … Continue reading
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POETRY: Gradient Sky
Spring blue sky warmed by the sun-wash of yellow, stretches from the rooftop to the maplewoods out back, and wide, punctured by the rosy pink of peach blossoms, to the hedgerow stone Far beyond my fingertip horizon, I imagine edges … Continue reading
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WRITING: Flaws will bloom when deadlines loom
With the reading period within a day of ending for many of the literary journals, I’m frantically reading, reading and rewriting a story that just showed up in my brain a couple days ago. It seems I put a good … Continue reading
POETRY: Seasonal
A single day each year smells of the heat of young summer of rain and the pungent scent of pavement steams through the city then fades with its presence while May and July travel on and forgotten in the next … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Beans of Egypt, Maine – Style
I’ve really been enjoying this book by Carolyn Chute her first, because of its character-driven plot, its simple yet shocking story of a family in backwoods Maine, but admittedly it’s the writing style that’s gotten me hooked. There were many … Continue reading
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REALITY?: Spring/Summer Saturday
My shop is outdoors inside. Whatever the weather is what I am too. Sometimes the rain tries to seep through the slats and I find myself weeping along. This morning I turned on the gas stove; now I turn on … Continue reading
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EDUCATION & LITERATURE: Using One Within the Other
One of the best articles I’ve read recently on learning and literature, from The Chronicle, “Against Readings”: Everyone who teaches literature has probably had at least one such golden moment. I mean the moment where, reading casually or reading intently, … Continue reading
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POETRY: Composition
Without its double-u will becomes ill; funny how places of things and all things in place turn soil into sand maples to cacti and adding salt to a stream makes an ocean
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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Modern Means of Torture
The more I read the more I believe there should be further investigation of the tactics used in torturing prisoners and establishing legality. I’m not necessarily looking for blame purposes, but for the future. As Americans being represented by the … Continue reading
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POETRY: Circles and Edges
It’s a group nailed tightly together in rows of wood and paper boxes each with a single door that opens in, opens out like estuaries onto the main stream of political hallways that run downriver, carrying their barge that drags … Continue reading
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EDUCATION & WRITING: Congratulations!
To Mary Ellen for winning a prize on one of her excellent short stories. She will be receiving recognition on Honors Day at Trinity College (Hartford, CT).
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