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alex-grant's picture
Jul.26.2008
All I'm doing here is posting one great poem every day(not mine, obviously) and attempting to summarize the key elements that I think make the poem...
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marilyn-kallet's picture
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...
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ericka-lutz's picture
Jul.26.2008
Okay, all you amazing fiction writers (yes, you). How are your chops? Can you write a complete short story in exactly 70 words? Can you include BODY...
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cheryl-l-snell's picture
Jul.26.2008
It's almost Guru Purnima, the day sacred to the memory of the great sage Vyasa, who wrote the Mahabharata. This day also marks the onset of the...
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michelle-richmond's picture
Jul.26.2008
You’ve probably met a few writer types who say they don’t own a TV.Maybe you're even one of them. Well, I fully and shamelessly confess that my...
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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Jul.26.2008
More than great works of art or poetry or architecture or stories or sculpture, the human act of being funny makes me love us.  I think it's really...
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marilyn-kallet's picture
Jul.26.2008
This morning, a woman sculptor my age thanked me for my frankness and "lightness" of expression about being 60, embracing the body now...
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debbie-lee-wesselmann's picture
Jul.26.2008
Today is my birthday.  I've celebrated the anniversary of my birth so many times that I often forget how old I am or what day of the week July 26...
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terry-odell's picture
Jul.26.2008
I've been reading the ARC of When Danger Calls. It's a different kind of reading, and requires a totally different mindset. It's not the same kind of...
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r-n-morris's picture
Jul.26.2008
I was typing in a title for this blog entry, and the computer automatically supplied the questions above. "What am I doing? What should I be...
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bevan-morrison's picture
Oct.05.2008
Ole' Sarah is back at it again. Just this weekend, she told her supporters, on two separate occassions, that Obama had been "palling around...
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connie-kronlokken's picture
Oct.05.2008
Like many, I’ve had trouble concentrating on my work and trying to stay above the squabbling in America reflected in the Democratic and Republican...
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former member's picture
Oct.05.2008
by former member
Generation Tehran A documentary short about the youth of Iran.
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sue-glasco's picture
Oct.05.2008
After Mary Ellen and I spent a lazy morning lolling in her pool, we had time to hurry to the mall to get my hair fixed before Gerald was to return...
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former member's picture
Oct.05.2008
by former member
Chrissie Hynde: “[A] complete rock star in every sense of the word”? Nope: “I consider myself an animal activist first and my music as more of a...
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Oct.05.2008
Gentle Readers, we've been hearing much about the elusive Joe Six Pack these days. Sarah Palin has brought him up many times in her speeches and her...
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callie-lorentson's picture
Oct.05.2008
My husband took me out to breakfast this morning at our favorite diner by the river, The Testy Chef, and I took my library copy of the October...
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lina-ru's picture
Oct.05.2008
by Lina Ru
I was watching Deutsch Welle's programm Hin und Weg. It is about traveling here and there throughout Germany. They were interviewing an artist that...
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former member's picture
Oct.05.2008
by former member
The fungi fire their spores up to 55 miles an hour–which translates to an acceleration of 180,000 g. Research from the lab of Nicholas Money. Music...
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susan-brown's picture
Oct.05.2008
The sun isn't up yet, but I'm ready to go back to bed.  My favorite part of the day is the time before sunrise--the apartment is cool, it's dark...
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