This week the generous and talented Patricia Garfinkel shared her wisdom, process and a deceptively simple prompt with the writing group in Bethesda. She gave us five words, which we were to work into a poem, sentence, or paragraph. It was so loose, people approached in all these different ways that were suited to their particular…
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Last week Jimmy Santiago Baca led some incredible workshops in the NCR about–well, about everything–but mostly about individual voice. He asked us to imagine an audience of the people we are most comfortable with and then speak directly to them in our writing. It was a gift, because I do think a lot of us…
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I spent the weekend at the TLA Network’s Power of Words Conference at Pendle Hill Retreat Center outside of Philadelphia. I was so completely drowning in work and life leading up to it, I didn’t have time to look at the conference schedule or think about what I hoped to get out of the conference.…
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