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Saturday, October 31, 2020
A Writer's Moment: 'News ... That Stays News'
'News ... That Stays News'
“If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. Literature is news that stays news.” – Ezra Pound
Born in New York on this Oct. 30,
1885, Pound spent most of his adult life in Great Britain and is considered the
poet most responsible for defining and promoting the so-called “modernist
poetry movement.” He also is noted for
opening an exchange of work and ideas between British and American writers and
for his support of other young writers like W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Marianne
Moore, William Hemingway and T.S. Elliot.
“Good writers,” he said, “are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it
clear.” For Saturday’s Poem, here is
Pound’s,
The Sea of Glass
I
looked and saw a sea
roofed over with rainbows,
In the midst of each
two lovers met and departed;
Then the sky was full of faces
with gold glories behind them.
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Friday, October 30, 2020
A Writer's Moment: Telling The Stories of 'Invisible People'
Telling The Stories of 'Invisible People'
Bottom of“I didn't go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to make a living, and I was proficient in writing. But in becoming a journalist, I learned about other people who felt like they were on the edges of American mainstream life.” – Alex Tizon
Tomas Alexander Asuncion (Alex) Tizon was born in the Philippines on this date in 1959. A Filipino-American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, he also taught journalism at the University of Oregon and authored the book Big Little Man, a memoir and cultural history that explores themes related to race, masculinity, and personal identity.
Tizon’s controversial final story, titled "My Family's Slave,” was published as the cover story of the June 2017 issue of The Atlantic after his sudden death at his home in March of that year. A coroner’s report said the unexplained death was “from natural causes,” but questions persist.
A graduate of both the University of Oregon and Stanford University, he won the Pulitzer for Investigative Reporting while writing about fraud and mismanagement in the Federal Indian Housing Program in a series for the Seattle Times. He regularly wrote about people from a wide range of cultures subsisting on the margins.
“I guess you could say I've written a lot about one thing as a journalist,” he said shortly before his death. “But I hardly ever saw it as exclusively about race. To my mind, it was more about telling stories of people who existed outside the mainstream's field of vision. Invisible people.“
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www.writersmoment.blogspot.comThursday, October 29, 2020
A Writer's Moment: Utilizing Life's Humorous Events
Utilizing Life's Humorous Events
For many years I wrote a “humor based on life” column called “Jargon,” which also became the title of one of my books. Started when I was writing for the Hot Springs Star in the Southern Black Hills, “Jargon” gave readers an invitation to enjoy a laugh at things that might or might not happen to them but had, in fact, happened to me or members of my family.