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Jan.29.2010
"Who's running the show?" the theme of the latest blog entry (at www.matsonpoet.com/blog/ and www.facebook.com/MatsonPoet) is a theme in *all* the entries. Best to read them from earliest to most recent. Your thoughts?
WRITING EXCURSIONS
January 29 - February 7, 2010
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Jul.13.2009
We gave a new twist to a writing exercise at Art Camp in the Sierra. It grew out of a discussion the month before at Wilbur Hot Springs, in the seminar “Writing and Powerful Experience.” The question of what is powerful circled around core issues as the answer, around what’s at the center of one’s...
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Dec.26.2008
Stark sunlight angling in low strikes a beautiful stone, flecked with gold and rot brown.
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Nov.29.2008
I am looking at the galleys for Chalcedony's Second Ten Songs and I am totally gassed by the reader's responses to Chalcedony's First Ten Songs! Now selecting a few for the new back cover. What in the world what was Chalcedony doing right?
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May.21.2008
Just received the first in-depth response to Chalcedony - here it is!
"I'm one of those people who never reads the preface, and it took me a couple of references to breasts to realize my perspective was definitely skewed. Back to the preface and... ahhh.... I love how this archetype, as...
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Apr.11.2008
Honesty, I think, was the link common to the very different writers at the Literary Death Match. I listened to every word with moment-to-moment renewed respect, and heard an honesty I aspire to. Andrew's crystal clear, compact glimpses, Rupert's passion and brutal pictures of political ca-ca,...
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About Clive
"Penetrating curiosity" is what his elementary school teacher saw in Clive Matson. Writing a poem about the wind -- in Southern California hills behind the avocado ranch where he grew up -- and reading the first page of Joyce's Portrait of an Artist...
Causes Clive Matson Supports
Amnesty International, National Resources Defense Council