The Next Big Thing
I am delighted to be a part of The Next Big Thing, the “authors and the authors who love them” weblog chain in which I answer questions about what I’m working on and get to introduce you to two gifted friends and writers. Ruth Ozeki tagged me for this, and her...
Last thoughts on Goddard
As I put the snow and icicles of Goddard behind me for another semester, I was thinking about the question of whether one can teach writing. I don’t know if we taught it, or whether we simply lived it, all together, for the last eight days. I come home filled by my...
Seeing
We walked in the woods at Goddard, looking for a cliff to look out over, and we found different way to see - through Bhanu's cracked, taped phone. What she says, on her own blog (click the picture), is this: I know that it is important to veer, and keep veering,...
The daily icicle
From Goddard, where today Susan Kim, Kyle Bass and I will be talking about the writer in the world, then I will be moving on to a session on emotional structure.
Good morning from Goddard
Where we are talking about death and time and the body and trauma and love and witness and healing...and writing, always writing.
Why we write
Last week, at a conference on young adult literature, key note speaker Beth Kephart (multi-award winning writer of fourteen books and more on the way), argued for the "radical significance" of stories in our new, "Sandy-Irene-Katrina world...of fiscal cliffs and...
December 4th at Book Court
The Salon: Literary Women Guest Curated by She Writes & Hedgebrook Writers Retreat Book Court 163 Court Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tel: (718) 875-3677 Tue Dec 4, 7:00PM Talking women writers with some wonderful women writers with Hedgebrook, She Writes and Goddard...
September 8th – Tea and readings
"For a ceramic artist, form is a vessel for the spirit. Fire - volatile and sacred in many cultures - is the alchemy that brings it alive. The artist's intentions, finger marks, and dreams all ignite in the kiln. When we invite hand-made art into our everyday...
GO: A Community Curated Open Studio Project
Come to Sunset Park! On September 8 & 9, the New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation is teaming up with the Brooklyn Museum’s GO Project, a community-curated open studio weekend event taking place in neighborhoods throughout Brooklyn. There...
Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas
I love this idea. And this wonderful festival has already begun. I will be reading and having a conversation about Country and Conflict tomorrow afternoon. Join us. The full schedule is here.