artist colony | artist colony
Jul.05.2010
The older I get, the less tolerance I seem to have for the nightly schoozing at the large artist colony. In the past I've met some of my very best friends at these colonies, and some of my poems have been set to music by composers I've met at artist colonies. I seem to thrive at the smaller...
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Mar.05.2010
I'm off tomorrow for Chapel Hill, to be the first poet in residence at Cassilaus, a modern house that would make Frank Lloyd Wright envious. I saw this article in the New York Times, emailed the filmmaker who is one of the partners, and asked if they would like to have a poet. On Location - A...
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Jun.25.2009
Just back from France and I'm preparing for my next residency at Red Cinder Creativity Center, on the Big Island of Hawai'i. I'm trying to make the most of my teaching leave, which ends mid-August. So I'm going for a two-week writing residency at a dream house provided for artists and writers, on...
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Mar.06.2009
My friend Laurel Smith, who is also a poet, has been able to secure the use of a cottage in New Harmony, Indiana, for the two of us to write poetry for 5 days. The cottage is free, and we will each have our own room. Laurel is an Indiana writer, and she has used this cottage before.
I've just...
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Jul.26.2008
I just deleted the last blog entry by accident! Whoa! I wanted to say that I've been coming here for writing residencies since 1979. I'm in the same writer's studio I had then, with its reassuring view of the mountain. The mountains are never fickle!
I've made good friends here, among...
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Jul.15.2008
I've just arrived at the Virginia Center, have not yet unpacked. My writing studio is a former corn crib. It's just not me.
Will I have the courage to ask for a change? Like all good girls, I hate to inconvenience anyone--and yet, and yet, this
is my writing life! And there's no view. It's a...
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