Exploding Moments—it looks like shattered glass but it’s not. I was on Aquinas College campus to speak for the Contemporary Writers Series Twentieth Anniversary. In addition, I had only one hour with forty students at Aquinas College for a mini lesson. That old challenge. One hour. Since teaching graduate school I no longer think in one hour segments, only in two-to- four hour teaching segments. I’ve been thinking for days.
The Truer Telling: Revision in Memoir. Wednesday, January 4, 3:30-5:30, Meditation room, Pine Manor College. Class open to auditors. Sign up on Solstice website. $40.00 Class description: Revision in memoir seems like the journey to a truth we didn’t know we knew. To complicate the process, many memoirists (and other prose writers as well) make this journey by first writing incidents, anecdotes or uncontextualized history—those predicted but ultimately contradicted “self-truths.” We write
Reading in The New Year: Sunday, January 1, 7:30, Founders Room, PMC. With award-winning writers Sandra Scofield and Kevin McClellen. Happy New Year!
The Solstice MFA at Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA, December 30-January 8. Sorry, my workshop is closed except to Solstice students. You can always apply!
We have a responsibility to negate the language that is feeding the behavior of hate. The man who is our president elect has legitimized this language by using it freely and without impunity.
My new tattoo. My first tattoo. I admit, I’ve talked it up since my 60 th birthday when I made a commitment to a tattoo because I thought sixty was a good marker, but I’d been thinking about it for a good decade previous to that. I’ve been talking about it for so long that friends roll their eyes. Yeah, sure. I’ve been asking for advice on what this tattoo
Wednesday Nov. 16th, 2016 Wege Auditorium, Aquinas College Campus Contemporary Writer’s Series. Thrilled to be invited back to the Contemporary Writer’s Series to speak as part of the CWS Twentieth Anniversary Greatest Hits celebration. (Now I’m a greatest hit? Just tickled.) Here’s the scoop on this amazing series. The Contemporary Writers Series celebrates its 20th year at Aquinas College with its 2016-2017 season. To date, 78 writers of all literary genres have
Their stories begin. Stories of how they will feel now when they walk out into the city, of what will go wrong if the rights for LGBTQ people go away.
November 15. 6-8pm. “Five Rivers.” An introductory workshop to life writing and the best strategies for entering memoir.