Yet another excellent poem from The Writer's Almanac : My Love For All Things Warm and Breathing by William Kloefkorn I have seldom loved more than one thing at a time, yet this morning I feel myself expanding, each part of me soft and glandular, and under my skin is room enough now for the loving of many things, and all of them at once, these ...
From The Writer's Almanac : It's the birthday of cartoonist and children's author William Steig, born on this day in New York City in 1907. His dad painted houses and his mom was a seamstress, both of them were socialist immigrants from Eastern Europe, and they thought it was great that he loved to draw and encouraged him from the beginning. He graduated from high school...
From The Writer's Almanac : On this day in 1973, school officials in Drake, North Dakota, burned copies of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five. Kurt ..., got married and had three kids and adopted three more, and struggled to find his voice as a writer. His stories kept falling flat — too serious and straightforward. But finally he wrote his masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five,...
...but the car kept coming up, the car in motion music filling it, and sometimes one other person who understood the bright altar of the dashboard - From "The Sacred" by Stephen Dunn, as heard on The Writer's Almanac
..., I could've expounded on that, it wouldn't have been the first time I've spoke of nothing forever and ever. Then I read today's The Writer's Almanac , or more specifically, the poem, The Thumb, by Peter Schneider. Wow! Did this hit a neuron or two or what? My grandfather was also a farmer (herded ...
I find it strangely appropriate that "The Writer's Almanac" email was empty today. Holly L. Cross Holly L. Cross of Nitro passed away on Saturday, October 17, 2009, her 34th birthday, at Thomas Memorial Hospital after a short illness. Holly lived most of her life in Nitro and was a Baptist. She was a 1993 graduate of Nitro High School and a...
... you can do that, but for all that Conrad is a very philosophical writer, he is also a writer who is close to history, and some background helps. Despite the traumas of Nostromo I have, over the... reading. Out of 5 ****(½) 47/50 wordsbook. 94% done! Now reading: Almanac of the Dead – Leslie Marmon Silko Plain Tales from the Hills – Rudyard ...
i like this from today's writer's almanac: i like my body by E. E. Cummings i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite a new thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and...
...can pretend to be a "real writer" and not actually do what is...what you like". As a professional writer and editor for more than a...of making money as a freelance writer, a lot will depend if you...great article in this year's Writer's Market about Freelance Newspaper ... every year for its various almanac series. http://www.llewellyn.com/...also check out the article from Writer's Weekly about this topic:...
Courtesy of Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac : It's the birthday of poet W.S. Merwin, born in New York City (1927)...He studied creative writing at Princeton University and often showed his poems to the poet John Berryman, then a graduate student. Merwin asked Berryman how to know if his poems were any good. Berryman replied, "You can't. You can...
