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 …
SELF-INTERVIEW: SWAN SONG. SEPTUAGENARIAN You say your most recent book, Septuagenarian, is your swan song, what do you mean by that? Septuagenarian is the last book I will write. Friends ask me why and I respond “I am tired.” My focus has always been to discover who I am …
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 …
