Michael Dresser in his wine column, “Vintage Point”, writing about the difficulty of recommending wine for Thanksgiving dinner writes:’Thanksgiving is America’s national feast – the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty. In France, by contrast, there are three such ...
She wrote it as feedback for one of my poems, and she may have written it as a reflection for her work too. Katy writes gorgeous, haunting poems about her relationship with the California landscape. She also sets some of her poems to death metal music. Katy is very cool. I am stil...
Her poems are widely published in magazines and anthologies, and her pamphlets Pretty in Pink (4Word) and Queen of Infinite Space (Maytree) were published in 2021. Posted in Parody, Pastiche, poetryTagged art, comedy, humour, life, literature, love, poem, poet, poetry, writing1 Comment Ba...
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game: All we did during practice was 7 .I always wished to God that it would rain so we would not have the 8 .Of course, all teams run drills; they are 9 But we ran so much that, afterwards, we had trouble 10 Younger people shouldn't be doing exercises 11 for 18-year-olds. ...
And finally, the 12 to 18 year olds and I spent almost the whole of Thursday together, in three different workshops:How to Become a Good Writer,An Introduction to Poetryand, finally,Nailing the Narrative Curve,where we had tremendous fun writing a story plan for the tragic story of three ...
I began writing stories and poems when I was about seven years old, just for fun. I would read them to my family and my dog, then stash them away in a pink plastic bag and forget about them. I would write for my own pleasure at the weekends, and on holidays, right up till I ...
Word spread around the school. Pretty soon, all but one classroom had booked Dad for reading — and the one that didn’t book him had specialized testing they couldn’t skip. He spent the day reading age-tailored Christmas poems and stories to the whole school, from kindergarten to sixth...
On my desk is a copy ofThe Best of It: New and Selected Poemsby Kay Ryan inscribed by the poet to me. It is the collection for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2011. She signed my copy after she did a reading of her work at SMU last year. I had ordered it on the...
And after that came autumn (or Fall), then spring, then last of all summer! I wonder why? Maybe the extremes of winter weather lend themselves to descriptive poems more than gentler seasons – or maybe we just love snow! It was great to see that everybody who entered stuck to the rule...