Shakespeare and Company: A literary shrine
Early this September, my husband and I traveled to Paris for the opening of my son’s art show....
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Author: Liza Ketchum
Creative Idleness
I may have mentioned in this space that my husband rolls his eyes when I insist that I’m working as I walk, swim laps, or take a long shower. Brenda Ueland labeled these activities “Creative Idleness…the dreamy...
Read MoreIn praise of revision, as always
In a fit of optimism (insanity?) I promised our esteemed blog administrator that I would post at least once during the residency. Ha! I did, however, think of things to say as I walked the track or crouched in the single seat on...
Read MoreAnother view of picture books
A quick post:Check out this recent PW article about picture books: http://bit.ly/fqf3nN. It’s a more positive view of the market, written in rebuttal to an earlier, dreary NYTimes story on the same subject.Now, if I could...
Read MorePoets in Solidarity
It has been almost a year since we heard–mid-residency–about the massive earthquake that leveled Port-au-Prince, killing more than a quarter of a million Haitians. Six weeks after the quake, eighteen poets,...
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