If my name is written Jacob Sam-La Rose, why do some people insist on calling me Sam? I mean, it’s really not that confusing, is it?
Poetry Workshops, Briggs Seekins, 2001.
While I don’t agree with everything said here (particularly the last sentence), it’s a good reminder of the possible issues within the workshop environment. I think a good leader and some clear guidelines for feedback can help to guard against problems…
- Bennington College student. Got me thinking…
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“The 21 Steps” is a fast-paced, finely-tuned thriller that uses Google Maps to take the reader through the story’s events. Written by British purveyor of spy thrillers, Charles Cumming, the story is told through Google’s information bubbles with brief statements and images that take the reader from the streets of London to Edinburgh, Scotland with plenty of action and mini-cliffhangers along the way. (via Cool Hunting)
She is the author of Except By Nature(Graywolf Press, 1998), which received the Academy’s 1998 James Laughlin Award and was selected by Eamon Grennan for the 1997 National Poetry Series; Sleeping Inside the Glacier, a collaboration with artist Michele Burgess (1997); and A Fish to Feed All Hunger (1993), which was selected by James Tate to be the Associated Writing Programs Award Series winner in poetry.
Ah. New screensaver. Yum.
WARNING: SPOILER AHEAD… It’s rare that an alternate ending changes the way I feel about a film. I hated the version I saw in the cinema, but I feel better about the film having seen this…
