No, no, I didn’t get to interview her (darn!). Goodreads recently posted a great ten questions interview with Joyce Carol Oates, which I was excited to read. The first question was my favorite: Goodreads: You have earned a place among the great American writers of the last century. Do you feel that your writing is [...]
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Since 1996, the Academy of American Poets has declared that April is National Poetry Month. In honor of that, I’ll be celebrating poetry every Wednesday in April with a poem by my favorite poet, Billy Collins. So far, I’ve posted “Marginalia”, “On Turning Ten”, “Bar Time”, and “Dancing Toward Bethlehem.” Read on for the final [...]
Since 1996, the Academy of American Poets has declared that April is National Poetry Month. In honor of that, I’ll be celebrating poetry every Wednesday in April with a poem by my favorite poet, Billy Collins. So far, I’ve posted “Marginalia”, “On Turning Ten”, and “Bar Time.” Read on for this week’s poem! I’m not [...]
I’m a big fan of essays and memoirs, but I know a lot of people who don’t like them because they think an essay or memoir is self-absorbed. While sometimes this is true, the best personal essays that I’ve read end up not being self-absorbed at all. And it’s these fantastic essays that leave me [...]
Since 1996, the Academy of American Poets has declared that April is National Poetry Month. In honor of that, I’ll be celebrating poetry every Wednesday in April with a poem by my favorite poet, Billy Collins. So far, I’ve posted “Marginalia” and “On Turning Ten.” Read on for this week’s poem! As part of the [...]
I was first introduced to writer Anne Lamott during a creative nonfiction class I took as a junior in college. We read her book Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, as a way to learn how to write narrative essays without getting bogged down. When I’m stuck writing I love to go [...]
Since 1996, the Academy of American Poets has declared that April is National Poetry Month. In honor of that, I’ll be celebrating poetry every Wednesday in April with a poem by my favorite poet, Billy Collins. Last week I wrote about “Marginalia.” Read on for this week’s poem and links to other bloggers celebrating poetry! [...]
Since 1996, the Academy of American Poets has declared that April is National Poetry Month. In honor of that, I’ll be celebrating poetry every Wednesday in April with a poem by my favorite poet, Billy Collins. Read on to learn why I love him so much and read today’s poem, “Marginalia.” I haven’t always been [...]
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775. Austen, who is now one of the most recognized writer’s in English literature, wasn’t well-known during her lifetime. She published most of her novels anonymously, and it was only after her nephew published A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1869 that she was introduced to a wider [...]
I’m feeling in a bit of a blog funk lately — I blame the end of the semester and a hangover from NaBloPoMo — and can’t seem to think of anything original to write. However, yesterday I found a great post at Critical Mass that contained John Updike‘s six rules for reviewing books that I’d [...]
