Rememory: Discovering Your Life

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...

Writing in Cars (for mothers and others)

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,...

Rejection, Rejection, Rejection, Pulitzer

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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