I came across this poem misattributed to another David in a book I’m reading (a book I otherwise love). So I looked it up and found it on the web with typos, mistitled, etc. But it also appears (correctly) on Best American Poetry. The whole process made me reflect on how mistakes can add emphasis […]
I just finished listening to this novel by Meg Waite Clayton, and I wish I could get print copies and give them to all my writing friends for Christmas. Beginning in 1968, this novel about women’s friendship (and writing!) hit all the right notes from my late childhood memories. If you click on Meg’s name […]
Wanted to share this review, in Inkwell, of the new anthology of television poems — including one of my own!
I love getting my daily email from Advice to Writers. It reminds me that I am a writer, before I even open it, and the advice is so often spot-on to what I’ve been thinking about, that it’s uncanny. So, this, from John Green, author of Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, and other […]