If you’re called to write, you don’t need any additional excuse. Writing can be as natural as eating, as natural as drinking water or breathing. If you want to write, you should write. So you visit your local stationery store, you buy a gorgeous journal bound in leather, or a spiral notebook with Duck Dynasty […]
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Entries by Bethany
Writing Lab Returns
This fall I am taking time off from teaching my regular load of classes. I am training myself to avoid saying, “I’m not working.” I am working. I’m getting up every morning and writing…except when I’m on my way to Chehalis (so far, every week) to see my mother, or to attend a conference. I am […]
Dean Young
I came across this line in my reading today. It’s from Dean Young’s The Art of Recklessness: “But IT’S OKAY TO ENJOY WRITING! Poetry need not be a distillation of suffering!”
LitFuse
This weekend I am off to LitFuse in Tieton, Washington. Dorianne Laux, who wrote the introduction to my new book, Sparrow, is among the featured poets. Here’s a poem, which I’ve cut and pasted from The Poetry Foundation. Dust BY DORIANNE LAUX Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but […]