One of the best poets alive today — or in my opinion, the best poet alive today — is coming to St. Paul this month. I can hardly contain myself. Gary Snyder, hero to my heroes, profound poet, wanderer of the wild, mounter of mountains, meditator, dharma bum, will participate in Minnesota Public Radio’s Talking [...]
I’ve been busy this week and not a very active blogger. I’m okay with it. I think by far the best thing I’ll post this week is Meditations on Trail, Feb. 5, 2005. The only journalling I’ve done all week has been a half-assed little session Wednesday night. I wrote five or so paragraphs of [...]
Spurred by weekly Fiction Friday deadlines, I’ve been writing a little bit more fiction lately. Nevermind that most of my readers seem to think it’s autobiography. As much as I’ve always loved the feeling of writing a story (or more accurately, finishing a story), the process still scares the hell out of me. I think [...]
I thought that today would be a good day to write about writing because I went to a seminar presented by IABC (International Association of Business Communicators) at St. Thomas this morning. The seminar was essentially about how to write good. Or is it “how to write well?†The guy who led the seminar (he [...]
Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (that’s the new translation, it was known as Rememberances of Things Past for a long time) was the prototype autobiographical novel. Kerouac took many of his ideas about writing and novels from that model. In fact, Jack always envisioned The Duluoz Legend, the series of novels that traced his [...]
imagination is the key to three things, two of which i have managed to sum up in one word each: 1) humor 2) adventurebut i can’t narrow this down: 3) meaningful connections with my fellow humanswhat? i mean, without imagination, life is cliche. writing is cliche. art is cliche. all is cliche. you can’t make connections with cliches. you can’t say [...]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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