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Feb.05.2012
The Search for Meaning Book Festival
I've just returned from Seattle University where I attended and participated in an amazing event. I've been to literally dozens and dozens of literary festivals both in the United States and in Ireland, this has to be one of the best run and...
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Dec.08.2010
Portraiture: An Interview with Rosanne Olson and a Free Book!Rosanne Olson - Portrait
Some people are just multi-talented. And Rosanne Olson is one of them. I first met Rosanne Olson seven years ago when she joined a writing group I was in. Since that time I have come to know her not only as a...
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Dec.08.2010
Portraiture: An Interview with Rosanne Olson and a Free Book!Rosanne Olson - Portrait
Some people are just multi-talented. And Rosanne Olson is one of them. I first met Rosanne Olson seven years ago when she joined a writing group I was in. Since that time I have come to know her not only as a...
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Sep.24.2010
Thankful Thursday - Before It EndsThank you for the last two days of working on poems. Maybe I can make my deadline after all
Thank you for 20 more minutes in which I will try to remember why I should be thankful
Thank you to Pilot Books for a memorable reading tonight
Thank you to my amazing South...
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Sep.22.2010
Welcome to the book release party of Letters from The Emily Dickinson Room by Kelli Russell Agodon.Kelli is here this afternoon (also on a 24 hour basis) to read poems, mingle with friends, eat well, and most of all celebrate the release of this important new book. You are invited to party with her...
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Apr.23.2010
Two years. Two years since I sent my manuscript to White Pine Press and Dennis Maloney said he would consider it. Another six months or so until he wrote to say, "Yes"!
In two days, The Alchemist's Kitchen, will be launched at 3:00 PM, Sunday @ Open Books in Seattle. Your presence is...
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Apr.23.2010
Two years. Two years since I sent my manuscript to White Pine Press and Dennis Maloney said he would consider it. Another six months or so until he wrote to say, "Yes"!
In two days, The Alchemist's Kitchen, will be launched at 3:00 PM, Sunday @ Open Books in Seattle. Your presence is...
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Mar.25.2010
I just couldn't resist this from Nicholas Kristoff's recommendation. If you double-click on this image you can see the larger picture which shows specific word changes. Also, I am completely enamored with that slightly curved index finger. I want to show this photograph to my students...
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Mar.08.2010
Please humor me tonight. I am not keene on using this blog for self promotion. Usually I try hard to avoid indulging in the story of me. However, my new book The Alchemist's Kitchen has arrived after four long years. As of tonight, you can order personally signed copies from me via my...
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Mar.01.2010
Sundering. Vessel. Decal-ed plexiglass. Mark Doty read last night for Seattle's amazing poetry program coordinated by our own Rebecca Hoogs and it was the best reading of the season. Maybe the best poetry reading of the decade! It is a rare poet that can entertain and educate, charm and come...
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Feb.06.2010
The Writer's Life: Proofing the Proofs for (I hope) the Final Time ...This is the part of the book process that I find the most difficult. Not only do I worry incessantly that I am missing embarrassing typos, but my poems start to look very tired after the fourth, fifth, tenth go round. I usually...
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Feb.06.2010
The Writer's Life: Proofing the Proofs for (I hope) the Final Time ...This is the part of the book process that I find the most difficult. Not only do I worry incessantly that I am missing embarrassing typos, but my poems start to look very tired after the fourth, fifth, tenth go round. I usually...
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Jan.09.2010
We begin with the visual. Ekphrastic poetry is a response in words to a painting, photograph, dance, building, sculpture, Ikea catalog, child’s drawing, or bumper sticker. An ekphrastic poem begins with inspiration from another piece of art and with the intuitive understanding that art begets art...
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Dec.26.2009
Mari L'Esperance's debut collection, The Darkened Temple, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, is a book I have returned to again and again during the past month. It is impressive both for its charged content and form. In other words, the poems work not only as individual lyrics, but the...
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Dec.24.2009
I believe in writing poems about food. For awhile, I was convinced that writing about the joy of pastry or the taste of Russian black bread might keep me from needing to indulge. I imagined the diet book, "How to Write Food Poems and Fit into Your Size 6 Jeans." There was a time when I...
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About Susan
A transplanted Bostonian, Susan Rich is the winner of the PEN USA Poetry Award as well as the Peace Corps Writers Poetry Award for The Cartographer's Tongue: Poems of the World, (White Pine Press, 2000). Her book, Cures Include Travel came out from White Pine...
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