by Elizabeth | May 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Writing about writing in cars from last week’s post reminded me about bathroom readers. When I was twenty-one, I lived for a summer in a household of young farmers and other folks recently graduated from college. I was trying to be a writer. I had several stories I...
by Elizabeth | May 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
Many years ago I took a writing class with Eileen Myles. For one of the exercises she led us through, we watched an old movie—black and white, eerie and dramatic—with the sound turned off. As we watched it, we wrote. We wrote the scene, the dialog, descriptions of...
by Elizabeth | May 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
In class recently, one of my students at home with two young children talked about having left the house the evening before to write. She hadn’t been able to write all week, but in the twenty-minute reprieve she wrote three pages! There is something magical for me,...
by Elizabeth | May 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
According to news reports, Gregory Pardlo is a 46-year-old man who appears to be enrolled both in Columbia’s MFA in Creative Non-fiction Program and CUNY’s PhD in English. He already has a master’s degree in Poetry from NYU. These degrees may sound impressive but they...
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