Reading

  • The Sacred Spaces We Find. The Ones We Create

    And make no mistake that the medicine that the Purdy’s found at that lake was no doubt strong. But the A-Frame that they built on that lake in the middle of Loyalist country became an receiver of that medicine, funneled towards its positive nature.

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  • Looking Inward from the Fallen World: Some Thoughts of Phaedrus and the Things We Choose to Read

    So, in truth, I’ve found myself going back through a great deal of the classics that inhabit the bookshelves of my home office. First, I turned to grand ole Karl Marx. But after just going through the Communist Manifesto, the emotions of being a chronically underemployed and underpaid writer/editor definitely got to me a way

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  • I was putting together my W203 Creative Writing syllabus for the fall and have been focusing on Rocky Mountain state writers. Naturally, sometime after Rick Bass I found poet John Haines’ work and have been spending sometime nosing around his work for stuff that is teachable. To say there is a lot would be a

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  • If you still have some space on that list and are looking for a good read, Joe Mackall’s The Last Street Before Cleveland should be a good for you.

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  • Some Thoughts About Greenman’s A Balloon is a Circle and Compass Both: Just finished up this collection for workshop this week and figured it at least worth a few notes on the web. On the whole Greenman does some pretty fun work here. The Editor of the New Yorker that Greenman is comes through perhaps

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