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Mental Health for Writers
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Staying sane and succeeding in an artificially difficult profession: creative writing.
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Meet Me: Preview the Book
My book Meet Me: Writers in St. Louis, is in production, and here's a PDF peek at what it will look like inside. I include the whole interview with poet Tess Gallagher, then in St. Louis promoting her books of poems Moon Crossing Bridge and Portable ...
TextFlow Beta: Look at My Poem
I asked for and received permission to try the beta version of TextFlows, and set up a short poem of mine in it. Let's see what you think (need a Flash Player):TextFlows is a startup outside of Boston. And me, I'm just curious....
Animated Poems by TextFlows
Try poems by Yeats, Dickinson or (maximum fun) "Casey at the Bat" as animated words using Textflows. Cut into bite-size pieces, the poems materialize on your screen at a readable pace that lets the words "sink in." Opinions range ...
"Epi-Graph," as in "Epi-Dermis"
"Epi" means "on top of," as in "epidermis.""Graph" means "writing."An epigraph, then, is "on top of the writing."The epigraph follows the title, and, like the title, its job is informational...
Free Software To "Kindle" on Your PC
This just in: Now you don't need "to buy a Kindle" to read e-books. Fire up Kindle on your PC or iPhone with free software. If you have an amazon.com account already it is a breeze. The software took only 5.2 MB of space:SEATTLE--(BUSINESS...
Competing Readings: What to Do?
Tonight, Nov. 11, there are 3 competing literary readings, and it's a difficult choice as personal friends are involved in all of them:Jennifer Kronovet, Stephanie Brown, and Heather Treseler--three acclaimed poets hailing from the East Coast, the We...

