May 2013
1 post
April 2013
2 posts
5 tags
7 tags
“Lord, not you,
it is I who am absent.
At first
belief was a joy I kept in...”
– “Flickering Mind,” Denise Levertov
February 2013
1 post
this past week = this on repeat.
frankocean:
...
January 2013
1 post
8 tags
December 2012
2 posts
September 2012
1 post
5 tags
“Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a...”
– Annie Dillard, “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”
August 2012
1 post
5 tags
“To pray you open your whole self
To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon
To one...”
– “Eagle Poem” by Joy Harjo
June 2012
1 post
4 tags
“There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and...”
– Wendell Berry, “How To Be a Poet”
May 2012
3 posts
5 tags
3 tags
2 tags
February 2012
1 post
5 tags
Kurt Vonnegut's eight rules for writing a short...
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a Sadist. No...
December 2011
4 posts
2 tags
“He [Shel Silverstein] wrote on everything… He wrote on menus, napkins,...”
– from the article “Every Thing In It,” detailing the Shel Silverstein archive.
6 tags
“We don’t see the ocean, not ever, but in July and August
when the worst...”
– Philip Levine, “Our Valley”
November 2011
2 posts
6 tags
“Sunday. What still sunny days
We have now. And I alone in them.
So...”
– Annie Dillard, “Mornings Like This” (a found poem created from David Grayson’s The Countryman’s Year)
“And it seems to me that the invitation of poetry is to bring your whole life to...”
– Muriel Rukeyser
September 2011
1 post
6 tags
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
3 posts
6 tags
“A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.”
– Yann Martel, Beatrice and Virgil
7 tags
“Happiness includes a lot of emotions. It’s darkness, sadness, moments of...”
– Robin Pecknold, lead singer of Fleet Foxes, from an article in Rolling Stone.
6 tags
May 2011
4 posts
6 tags
One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will...
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April 2011
3 posts
5 tags
“Books for young people have a rich and I daresay limitless future—knock...”
– Dave Eggers, The Wild Things
3 tags
“What if I need to run away? Just take off at any moment? I want to be able to...”
– Zooey Deschanel
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“I hadn’t heard anyone speak of a writer as having power. Truth, yes. Wit,...”
– Tobias Wolff, Old School 