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Poems to Listen By: Black Bird Soirée 04—A Plausible Story

By Laurie Klein 4 Comments

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Deaf Republic Book Club: Act One

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Deaf Republic old water fountain

In our first installment of the Deaf Republic book club, we consider hope’s impossibility in the midst of unending devastation.

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Friendship Project: Somebody I Used To Know

By Callie Feyen Leave a Comment

Writers Block Coffee Shop

When writer’s block threatens to derail, one writer finds a way forward in music, baking, friendship and the practice of “living it a while.”

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Project, Patron Only, Writing Life

Adjustments Book Club: We Note Our Place With Book Markers

By Rick Maxson 19 Comments

Sunrise in field

How does friendship play a role in identifying, and going on to meet, our needs? Explore the relationship between new friends Will and Joe in Rick Maxson’s first Adjustments Book Club installment.

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“The Art of the Essay” Book Club: True

By Megan Willome Leave a Comment

Charity Singleton Craig

Meaningful essays are capital-T True. Learn how to write essays that endure in the final meeting of ‘The Art of the Essay’ book club.

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“The Art of the Essay” Book Club: Slant

By Megan Willome 5 Comments

Charity Singleton Craig

In a tell-all environment, how do we write essays when we can’t tell it all? We tell it slant. Join us for our book club on ‘The Art of the Essay.”

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“The Art of the Essay” Book Club: Truth

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Charity Singleton Craig

The key to essay-writing is getting to the truth. Megan Willome discusses how to get there in our book club on Charity Singleton Craig’s ‘The Art of the Essay.’

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The Writing Life: Somehow Beginnings

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

Callie Feyen reflects on coming to the place in our writing life where we are both ready and willing and can “somehow begin.”

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Literary Friends: Charles Dickens, John Forster, Jane Carlyle, and Me

By Callie Feyen 8 Comments

Literary Friends Dickens Carlyle Forster lambs playing

“I’d decided going to graduate school was a mistake, and began to make plans to give up,” says Callie Feyen. “Enter Charles Dickens, John Forster, and Jane Carlyle.”

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Literary Friends: Keeping Anna Akhmatova Alive

By Sandra Heska King 34 Comments

Statue grief

Anna Akhmatova’s friends memorized her poems to keep her work alive when it was too dangerous to put pen to paper. Sandra Heska King spotlights this life and death role of literary friends.

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Difficult Conversations: Eleven by Sandra Cisneros

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Difficult Conversations The Identity Conversation

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