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10 minute writing assignment: revised twice

Sherry June 11, 2015 June 11, 2015Assignments autisim, grandsons, memoir, poetry, process of writing, revision, writing 0

I enjoy re-visioning (not editing). It’s fascinating to see where a poem will lead you, if you let it. It helps to play with words, with sounds, with punctuation: change happens. The following poem changed meaning from the draft to the second revision: suddenly the grandmother was no longer thinking …

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WRITER’S HESITATION or I’m not “blocked,” I’m lazy

Sherry May 1, 2015 May 1, 2015Assignments, The Art of Writing poetry, process of writing, writer's block 1

Often it’s been said that there is no such thing as writer’s block.  I tend to agree.  However, personally, I have “writer’s hesitation.”  [I know, the period inside the quotation looks weird, but I’ve been told by experts that’s the way it is.] I hesitate for various reasons, but most …

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READING SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 at Birchbark Books

Sherry September 8, 2014 September 8, 2014Assignments, LOVE IMAGINED 0

The Birchbark Books Reading Series continues its 6th season of readings on Wednesday, September 24 at 7:00 p.m. Reading will be Satish P. Jayaraj, Sherrie Fernandez-Williams, Sherry Quan Lee, and Eric Hove. Curated by Michael Kiesow Moore and Ardie Medina, the Birchbark Books Reading Series features new, emerging, and established …

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Responsibility of the Poet

Sherry August 22, 2014 August 22, 2014Assignments, The Art of Writing poetry, responsibility of the poet, writing 0

As I ready for Fall semester, my mind is on “responsibility”- and I hope to convey to students, through the words of other writers, that we writers have a job to do, as scary and risky and lonely as that job can be. Interesting article, here’s an excerpt:  …a poetry …

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    Sherry Quan Lee approaches writing as a community resource and as culturally based art of an ordinary everyday practical aesthetic. Lee is a Community Instructor at Metropolitan State University (Intro to Creative Writing, Advanced Creative Writing), and has taught at Intermedia Arts, and the Loft Literary Center. She is the author of A Little Mixed Up, Guild Press, 1982 (second printing), Chinese Blackbird, a memoir in verse, published 2002 by the Asian American Renaissance, republished 2008 by Loving Healing Press, and How to Write a Suicide Note: serial essays that saved a woman’s life, Loving Healing Press, 2008.
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