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“Making Peace with Paradise” by Tania Runyan

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

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In “Making Peace with Paradise,” Tania Runyan reflects on her upbringing in the state that gave us suburbs and the Beach Boys.

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Children’s Book Club: ‘Homesick: My Own Story’ by Jean Fritz

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

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How much of writing comes from narration? Our Children’s Book Club reads Jean Fritz’s “Homesick: My Own Story,” a Newbery Honor-winner.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories, China

Children’s Book Club: ‘Once Upon a Camel’

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In middle-grade stories the journey can happen Anywhere. Even to a camel, far from home. Join us for Kathi Appelt’s “Once Upon a Camel.”

Filed Under: Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories

Poetry Prompt: Be Your Own Professor — Haiku for Understanding

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

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Something magical can happen when you read a challenging story and then become your own professor — with a summary and haiku.

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Reading Generously: ‘How We Fight for Our Lives’ by Saeed Jones

By Megan Willome 11 Comments

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This month our book review column becomes Reading Generously. We begin with Saeed Jones’ open-handed memoir.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Black Poets, Blog, book reviews, Generous, Reading Generously

Taking a Scottish Road Trip with Jorge Luis Borges

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

What was supposed to be an “author-sitting” stint turned into a Scotland road trip for a young grad student and Jorge Luis Borges.

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Poetry as a Way of Ordering Experience: “The Music of Time” by John Burnside

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Poetry can be a way to bring meaning and order to one’s life, writes John Burnside in “The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century.”

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Britain, Literary Analysis, Poems, poetry, Poets

Memoir Notebook: The Minors

By John Mitchell Morris 3 Comments

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What does it really mean to be an adult? Guest author John Mitchell Morris’s haunting story challenges us to consider.

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Poets and Poems: Mary Karr and “Tropic of Squalor”

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

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“Tropic of Squalor” by poet and memorist Mary Karr demonstrates Karr’s well-earned reputation for excellence in imagery and metaphor.

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Memoir Notebook: Three Summers, Part One: The Seed

By Rick Maxson 14 Comments

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A city boy goes to spend the summer on a farm in rural Ohio, and the experience stays with him into his golden years, still surprising him with the way it reveals plain and not-so-plain truths.

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Memoir Notebook: A Courtyard in Queens

By Dheepa R. Maturi 17 Comments

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Dheepa Maturi reflects on her little Queens, New York, courtyard and its open-minded, open-hearted embrace, which welcomed and encircled and protected her.

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“The Joy of Poetry” by Megan Willome

By Glynn Young 12 Comments

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“The Joy of Poetry” by Megan Willome tells the story of her mother and herself, what poetry can do in a person’s life, and what it does in all of our lives.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Books, Finding Inspiration, poetry

Memoir Notebook: Molly and the Thieves

By Rick Maxson 21 Comments

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In our latest Memoir Notebook, Richard Maxson remembers his beloved German Shepherd Molly, in a tale of love, loss, and a band of thieves.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, Writing in Place

Memoir Notebook: Sweet Talk

By Darrelyn Saloom 38 Comments

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In this Memoir Notebook, Darrelyn Saloom recalls watching her stepfather raise his right arm. This time, his open hand curled into a fist.

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Memoir Notebook: Too Close for Comfort

By Darrelyn Saloom 25 Comments

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Darrelyn Saloom reveals childhood fears, both macro–the Cold War–and micro–her stepfather’s anger–in this entry in the Memoir Notebook.

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The Writing Life: The Writer’s Delusion and Telling it Slant

By Charity Singleton Craig 20 Comments

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How does a writer tell the truth in her writing when it doesn’t line up perfectly with the facts? Charity Singleton Craig considers the writer’s delusion.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, Writing Life, Writing Tips

Memoir Notebook: The Worst Kind of Luck

By Darrelyn Saloom 60 Comments

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Darrelyn Saloom recalls her mother, Billie Burnside and the Circle Inn lounge in this poignant entry in the Memoir Notebook.

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Memoir Notebook: Voices (or, How to Write Spiritual Memoir)

By Anthony Connolly 5 Comments

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Heed the voices, says Wm. Anthony Connolly, for they are the memoirist’s own rising from the soul.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, writer's group resources

Memoir Notebook: Double I/Eye

By Anthony Connolly 4 Comments

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You’ll attempt in memoir to recall as best you can, but it’s not always possible. One possible avenue of resolving the memory folly is splitting the memoirist in two.

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Memoir Notebook: The Bright Orders

By Anthony Connolly 16 Comments

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By way of our Memoir Notebook, we want you to meander, get caught up, find yourself taken to places you hadn’t intended to go (but are so glad, in the end, that you went). Today, Wm. Anthony Connolly talks about ghosts and Olympia Café.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, Memoir Notebook

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