Month: February 2008

It’s not plagiarism – I’m recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do. ~Uniek Swain Writers can’t let a good word,phrase or piece of work go by them unnoticed or ignored.My notebooks are full of hastily jotted down Continue reading Recycling Words→

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, Continue reading Perfectly Healthy Sentence→

I was so disappointed when the orchestra cut her off…glad to see and hear her words at the end. My favorite speech of the night.

And as to experience–well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. – Elizabeth Bishop I’m back at home in front of my computer, it’s strange how blogging at a strange computer doesn’t Continue reading An Experienced Poet→

Tomorrow is the last day of the conference and my notebooks are jammed with information. Usually after a writers conference I feel overwhelmed and tired. This one has instead invigorated me, I am looking forward to getting my notes and Continue reading Invigorated by Learning→

Today’s lecture with poets Denise Duhamel and Beth Ann Fennelly was about collaborating with another artist/poet/photographer/book maker/collage artist, this is a very exciting idea to me because I like the idea of not settling for one type of creative work. Continue reading Collaborative Writing→

A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one.Baltasar Gracian Forgive my short posts for the next four days, the conference runs from 8:00 a.m.-9:30 p.m. and it has been full of great information so Continue reading Responding to Visual Art→