Category: Writing Life
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May 2011 flashback
Categories: Writing Life
Click hear to listen to My Jack Straw Productions podcast! The recording is from my May 2011 Jack Straw Writing Fellows reading in the Jack Straw studios. Being a fellow for 2011 was a fantastic experience that introduced me to warm, generous people and talented writers. I was privileged to meet my fellow “fellows” and…
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Podcasts, Geospatial Poetry and Vienna Angels
My colleague here at the University of Pecs, Joseph Horvath, produces a podcast called “Take Off,” which features interviews with students and recordings of classic literature. I guess I fall somewhere in between. Joe interviewed me on one of the nicest days of autumn here; we sat outside at a cafe by the cathedral near…
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Lucky Me!
I’m back at La Muse in beautiful Labastide Esparbairenque, France with photography professor Alex Emmons and our class of eight students enrolled in “Creative Writing and Digital Photography in Medieval France.” Today was our first chance to get out into the sunshine and explore the area. Suzanne Blons and Brandy Dohrman (right) relax on the…
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KaNoPoMo!!!
Well,though the novelists have grabbed November (National Novel Writing Month–NaNoWriMo) as their own, in the spirit of prolificacy, I am taking on November as KaNoPoMo (Kathy’s November Poetry Month). In April I wrote a poem every day for NaPoWri Mo; and I had 30 poem drafts as a result. I had as added incentive an…
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Espar?
La Muse in Labastide Esparbairenque Even the flight attendant on my Air France flight who was from the Languedoc had trouble pronouncing the name of the town which was my destination. But after missing my first flight to Toulouse, then barely making my train to Carcassonne, I was picked up at the train station by…