Category Archives: writing

leaving on a jet plane

Posted on December 28, 2011 by

All my bags are packed I’m ready to go!

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rearranging

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

I’ve been sitting too much–novel, lecture, mfa, Contrary, Hunger Mountain, facebook, email, bills, purchases, photos… I noticed that my running injury from last December got worse, not when I ran but, when I sat for 10 hours. I’d been looking … Continue reading →

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busy being alive

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

from the archives: july 28, 2010 Ellen Gilchrist‘s first book was not published until she was in her forties. In “A Reading Group Guide” at the back of Nora Jane: A Life in Stories, she is asked about this: “I … Continue reading →

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on my way

Posted on June 26, 2011 by

I am at this minute high in the sky on my way to Vermont for my fourth residency, about to begin my last semester at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. How fast the time has gone. And I have … Continue reading →

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the writing life

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

For the last couple of months at Hunger Mountain, Claire Guyton, former Art +Life editor, and I have been working together to expand that section of the journal into The Writing Life. Here’s what’s up and coming at THE WRITING LIFE: 1) … Continue reading →

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shapes: amelia island

Posted on November 10, 2010 by
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it’s been another year

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

It’s been another year and I missed it–completely never even thought about it until Friday night when I was visiting another blog, reading a post about how that week was that blog’s two-year anniversary–still not thinking about it–and then at the … Continue reading →

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on its way to full

Posted on October 16, 2010 by

So Thursday morning was luxuriously wide open and the plan was to write a blog post and read about 50 pages of the novel I’m working on. I read the first paragraph of the novel about ten times and then … Continue reading →

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burned out

Posted on October 14, 2010 by

 

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look again

Posted on August 23, 2010 by

In a 1984 Paris Review interview, the writer James Baldwin said the following: I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he pointed down and … Continue reading →

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