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A Writer's Moment: 'Property of the imagination' : “The English language is nobody's special property. ...
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Thursday, March 31, 2022
A Writer's Moment: ‘Taking a stand and making a mark’
‘Taking a stand and making a mark’
which sold 10 million copies and was adapted as an ABC-TV miniseries.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2022
A Writer's Moment: 'Walking Into The Unknown'
'Walking Into The Unknown'
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Tuesday, March 29, 2022
A Writer's Moment: 'Invite Your Readers Home'
'Invite Your Readers Home'
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Monday, March 28, 2022
A Writer's Moment: An Ancient and Honorable Act
An Ancient and Honorable Act
“There are people like me who want to be writers because they love to write,” he said. “…My life has now been shaped by my writing,”
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Sunday, March 27, 2022
A Writer's Moment: 'When Thoughts Find Words'
'When Thoughts Find Words'
Half the world is composed of people
who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say
and keep on saying it.” – Robert Frost
Saturday, March 26, 2022
A Writer's Moment: 'Perfect' Mess
'Perfect' Mess
Karr has won a Pushcart Prize for her essays and a Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her poetry. “Every poem (I write),” she said, “probably has 60 drafts behind it.” For Saturday’s poem, here is Karr’s,
A Perfect Mess
I
read somewhere
that if pedestrians didn't break traffic laws to cross
Times Square whenever and by whatever means possible,
the whole city
would stop, it would stop.
Cars would back up to Rhode Island,
an epic gridlock not even a cat
could thread through. It's not law but the sprawl
of our separate wills that keeps us all flowing. Today I loved
the unprecedented gall
of the piano movers, shoving a roped-up baby grand
up Ninth Avenue before a thunderstorm.
They were a grim and hefty pair, cynical
as any day laborers. They knew what was coming,
the instrument white lacquered, the sky bulging black
as a bad water balloon and in one pinprick instant
it burst. A downpour like a fire hose.
For a few heartbeats, the whole city stalled,
paused, a heart thump, then it all went staccato.
And it was my pleasure to witness a not
insignificant miracle: in one instant every black
umbrella in Hell's Kitchen opened on cue, everyone
still moving. It was a scene from an unwritten opera,
the sails of some vast armada.
And four old ladies interrupted their own slow progress
to accompany the piano movers.
each holding what might have once been
lace parasols over the grunting men. I passed next
the crowd of pastel ballerinas huddled
under the corner awning,
in line for an open call — stork-limbed, ankles
zigzagged with ribbon, a few passing a lit cigarette
around. The city feeds on beauty, starves
for it, breeds it. Coming home after midnight,
to my deserted block with its famously high
subway-rat count, I heard a tenor exhale pure
longing down the brick canyons, the steaming moon
opened its mouth to drink from on high ...
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Friday, March 25, 2022
A Writer's Moment: 'Offered As A Gift'
'Offered As A Gift'
Her best-known books
for young children are the “Mercy Watson” series illustrated by Chris Van
Dusen. She also
wrote one of my all-time favorites, Because
of Winn Dixie. In 2014 and 2015 DiCamillo was appointed by the
Library of Congress as the U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's
Literature.
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Thursday, March 24, 2022
A Writer's Moment: ‘Always A Restorative Process'
‘Always A Restorative Process'
Their support is aimed primarily at small communities in Maine, the “place” where they work and live, because as a place, Maine has shaped their lives and been their home for decades. “Places are extremely important when writing a long story,” Tabitha said. “Place shapes a character.”
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022
A Writer's Moment: 'Don't Let Your Time Run Out On You'
'Don't Let Your Time Run Out On You'
“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so?” he asked. “Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. And before they know it, time runs out.”
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Tuesday, March 22, 2022
A Writer's Moment: 'Their brains are working'
'Their brains are working'
One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies … is people really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It’s great. It means their brains are working.” – James Patterson
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Saturday, March 19, 2022
A Writer's Moment: 'Without goodwill, society would not endure'
'Without goodwill, society would not endure'
Warm, perfumed, under the Easter moon.
The flowers are back in their places.
The birds are back in their usual trees.
The winter stars set in the ocean.
The summer stars rise from the mountains.
The air is filled with atoms of quicksilver.
Resurrection envelopes the earth.
Goemetrical, blazing, deathless,
Animals and men march through heaven,
Pacing their secret ceremony.
The Lion gives the moon to the Virgin.
She stands at the crossroads of heaven,
Holding the full moon in her right hand,
A glittering wheat ear in her left.
The climax of the rite of rebirth
Has ascended from the underworld
Is proclaimed in light from the zenith.
In the underworld the sun swims
Between the fish called Yes and No.
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