My inbox sees a lot of struggle–writing that the world should read, stories that are unfolding now in the heads of people you ought to know. People who can’t remember how to love themselves because disgust with who they became spreads like spilled ink over the story of their lives they are trying to rewrite.…
Read more
So instead of writing this is what I did to close out the day. I dig it. Captain Dougie’s Log
I’ve just finished this brilliant book of poems, Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen. Anyone who’s been in a writing group with me in the past couple of weeks has heard about it. The poems are startling with their clarity, and the duality of their familiarity and originality. I love them. I finished the collection today…
Read more
Heading from one long week into another, and somehow hoping that I’ll get the chance to write more than I did last week. I have been in this deep period of reading–new poetry that I’ve come across by accident, non-fiction, novels (I feel like it’s been years since I read this many novels), but…
Read more
I’ve had four writing groups this week that were extraordinary and bursting with talent and honesty. Yesterday TWO people arrived with poems they had written outside of group and shared them–not just with me, but with everyone. There was this sense, as we sat around the table, of a genuine safe creative space created with…
Read more
