http://blog.sherryquanlee.com WRITING SAVES LIVES Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:08:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From MinnPost, check it out!  http://www.minnpost.com/artsarena/2010/03/03/16388/minnesota%E2%80%99s_creative-writing_mfa_programs_thrive_despite_the_economy http://blog.sherryquanlee.com/2010/03/mfa-creative-writing-programs/ Check out "the women in my life" and "sisters of change"--by Chuayi, a participant in our "Women Writing About Women" workshop, 2/20/2010!  Here's the link to her blog site:  http://penningmylife.blogspot.com/ Sherry http://blog.sherryquanlee.com/2010/02/ma-petite-vie/ AFTER THE WRITING   Why do we write?  Or, if you’re thinking about writing, what blessings may blossom from your words? (I like to think of flowers this time of year.  I received a gift of rose s on Valentine’s Day.  They are now wilted and need to be discarded.  My colleague, ... http://blog.sherryquanlee.com/2010/02/after-the-writing/ A Saturday Workshop for Women about Women       “There was a woman here who was loved.” Joy Harjo     February 20, 2010 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. TRUE COLORS BOOKSTORE http://truecolorsbookstore.com/    SHARING OUR WOMEN’S STORIES: AN ORAL TRADITION will focus on stories of women in our lives. Stories of women in our families, and/or stories of women ... http://blog.sherryquanlee.com/2010/02/for-women-about-women/ Word from my publisher and Ernest Dempsey, editor of the new journal RECOVERING THE SELF, http://www.recoveringself.com/ regarding speaking your poetry on the Web. Here's an opportunity to get your poetic voice heard: From Ernest, You know I am omniscient and always go where no one has gone before. So ... http://blog.sherryquanlee.com/2010/01/spoken-word-on-the-web/ "A Decade of Asian Am Spoken Word" Bai Phi, YourVoices, January 4, 2010 Check it out! This is the site I almost wrote for, but I had a change of mind (as you know, I may have a lot to say, but I don't get it down in ... http://blog.sherryquanlee.com/2010/01/from-skateboarding-to-spoken-word-artist-activist/ Just a few tweaks to a holiday gift.  Time spent:  a lunch, an hour after dinner, a morning coffee break--a lifetime of New Years' wishes. Happy Holidays everyone. XXXXXXXXXXX you asked me for a poem. A clever and brazen request. It’s not so easy. Poems come and go. ... http://blog.sherryquanlee.com/2009/12/revision/ Give the gift of a poem . . . .     Don’t know what to give that special someone?  Three days ‘til Christmas eve, Kwanza five days away, a New Year just around the corner; whatever the occasion, don’t forget you can give a poem.  A poem costs nothing but your time, ... http://blog.sherryquanlee.com/2009/12/give-the-gift-of-a-poem/ ‘"You could write about this,'' I suggested, ever the believer in the healing power of words.  No, he said, no — he'd never write about it — …” ‘ --Catherine Watson, MinnPost, Dec.14, 2009       I haven’t written a blog entry in weeks, too many weeks. But I am constantly thinking about writing ... http://blog.sherryquanlee.com/2009/12/in-response-to-catherine-watsons-minnpost-entry-my-conversation-with-a-young-soldier-who-had-an-old-face/ Excerpted from "Sinister Wisdom", Issue #70 (Spring 2007) Sherry Quan Lee's book, Chinese Blackbird, is a fascinating narration of how race is lived in the United States today. Born to a Black mother and a Chinese father, much of Sherry Quan Lee's life was spent understanding race as she lived it ... http://blog.sherryquanlee.com/2009/11/julie-r-enszer-reviews-chinese-blackbird/