Reading THE COFFEE SHOP NE July 21, 2023 Intro: I Want Cake (bio) [see previous post of this poem] 1. There’s something about writing, about being a writer, you can’t retire from it, it’s got a hold on you despite the fact you might “want cake.” Once a writer always …
WHAT MATTERS TO ME IS STORY It’s been six months since my memoir in verse, Septuagenarian, debuted. I think about this as another Minnesota poet, and another, and another has released another book of poems. I think about how different our voices are. How different our techniques. I am less …
The Writing Process-What I Remember; What I Don’t A student once said to me that she appreciated me telling the class to keep everything. Keep each and every draft of your writing, your manuscript. Did I say that? Actually, I save nothing. Okay, next to nothing. When did …
Here, We Are Writing Workshop with Sherry Quan Lee: April 13 1-4pm at Eastside Community Co-op “The single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” — Chimamanda Adichie’s, “The Danger of …
