Poetry, Should I Be Worried About You?
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Do writers of narrative nonfiction need a book proposal? — YES! This can be confusing because narrative nonfiction is somewhat “fiction-like” in its presentation. While your narrative project should be...
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Making the Conference Memorable: If you’re on the writer’s journey, best buckle up for lifelong learning. All of us take turns being teachers and pupils along the way. That’s because no one -- whether...
View ArticleWhy I Write
Why I Write: I tried not to write. It didn’t work out. For the first part, I could blame Harlan Ellison. I was in college at the time, and starting to write down some of the stories coming into my...
View ArticleMy most memorable writers’ conference interaction
My most memorable writers’ conference interaction: One of my first writing teachers was Pam Houston at the Taos Summer Writers Conference, where she was an intelligent, perceptive, generous mentor. At...
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What IS poetry? Poetry is about our stories—not about telling our stories, exactly, but inviting others to feel them, to feel emotions that are common to all humans. Trying to understand what a poem...
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