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“Even the greatest talent, lacking the craft to develop it, is no more than an itch in the mind; and the higher the potential, of course, the greater the effort needed to bring it to peak achievement....
View Articlefriday feast: think big by liz garton scanlon and vanessa brantley newton (+...
Hello, Poetry-Loving Friends! Had to tell you about my BIG, BIG love for this brand new picture book by Liz Garton Scanlon and Vanessa Brantley Newton. Have you seen it yet? THINK BIG (Bloomsbury,...
View Articlegood advice for creative types from Marge Piercy
“You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… may you be in...
View Article[review + giveaway] Illusions: Poetry & Art for the Young At Heart by Charles...
“Everything you can imagine is real.” ~ Pablo Picasso Not too long ago, I featured a few word-gems from Charles Ghigna’s, Dear Poet: Notes to a Young Writer (Resource Publications, 2019). When I...
View Articleruminating on “call me bourgeois” by alice n. persons
Are you a tormented genius? Do you suffer for your art? Here’s what Maine poet Alice N. Persons has to say about that. Ed Harris as Jackson Pollock (2000) CALL ME BOURGEOIS by Alice N. Persons...
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