I have been declaring myself a writer for … well, ages. I love meeting writers and talking about their writing with them, but among the many people I meet, two groups baffle me: 1. Writers who don’t admit that they write. (And why the heck not?) 2. People who want to write, and don’t. If […]
This coming Saturday, I will be presenting my “Writing with Emily Dickinson” talk at the South Whatcom branch of the Whatcom Public Libraries. Here’s a link, and I very much hope that you can join us. (The address is 10 Barn View Court, Sudden Valley, Gate 2 Bellingham, WA 98229.) Writing with Emily Dickinson Bethany Reid is […]
I am a great lover of writer prompts, and I seem to have accumulated a dozen books of them. Books that I almost never open… This year, however, I’ve had a major realization around writing prompts. My realization began with my new little poetry project that builds on my old one-bad-poem practice. I was doing […]
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin