“If a vocation is as much the work that chooses you as the work you choose, then I knew from that time on that my vocation was, for better or for worse, to involve that searching for, and treasuring, and telling of secrets which is what the real business of words is all about.” -Frederick […]
Back to the college, and that inevitable question, “Did you work this summer?” I’m guilty of asking it, too. What we mean is “Did you teach a class — or two or three — this summer?” What we mean is “Did you do PAID work this summer?” This summer I took care of my family. […]
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” -Anatole France
Last night I read a few of my poems at the splendid It’s About Time Reading Series at the Ballard Branch of the Seattle Public Library. Jack Remick gave the featured craft talk, “Prosody on Prose.” I thought a good use of my space today would be to link to his blog, which he […]