Category: Creative writing
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The author reflects on their evolving writing journey after retiring from a long teaching career. They express excitement about a new musical theatre project, driven by previous aspirations and collaboration with a talented composer. The piece contemplates legacy, inspiration from contemporary poets, and personal growth through creative endeavors.
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Welcome, Haley, to my website! Thanks for reaching out to me. I’m adding the poetry website you recommended, Playground Equipment.com, so other young people can enjoy it like you do. Keep reading, keep writing, and keep connecting!
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I’ll be selling and signing my poetry books at the Adirondack Center for Writing, https://adirondackcenterforwriting.org/, 15 Broadway, Saranac Lake, NY on Thursday, August 17, 2023, 5:00-7:00 p.m. If you’re around for the Third Thursday Art Walk, come say hi and put your name in for a free book. 😊
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Caffe Lena Poetry Night video with Prostko, Graham, and McCoy, Feb. 3, 2021
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(Originally posted Feb. 14, 2018) Whether with dread or welcome, we find ourselves at Valentine’s Day yet again. It’s a challenging day to teach creative writing to undergraduates. In teaching my students to notice what works best in their own poems, they’ve started already (three weeks in) to recognize the lasting appeal of love poems…
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We’re all adding brushstrokes to a much larger mural than any one of us can hold
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The arts validate those who question and help close the chasms between us.
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These winter Sundays, when snow mounds, temperatures plummet, and spirits sag a bit, I renew my appreciation of spirit lifters, chief among which are the Women of Mass Dissemination, my writers’ group of the past decade. We meet monthly, go on a weekend retreat twice a year to write, and hold each others’ multicolor…
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Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings should be required reading for each presidential candidate this year, as well as for the rest of us who crave air and earth, word and music, story and myth, who measure our lives in the woes of flesh and the joys of spirit. To read Joy Harjo’s poetry, particularly Conflict…
The Real McCoy 