Getting Things in Order

Getting Things in Order

Last August at Table Rock, a few of us lamented about wanting to take a chapbook class, but there were none to be found. Sue Dunlap Weaver came back, “What if I could talk Connie Green into doing one at her house in Lenoir City for about 10-12 of us?” We were giddy...
Write It Down

Write It Down

It has been a while since I’ve written about my writing activities, so I’ll back up a little to include the past couple of months. At the end of March, I went to Denton’s for a week (March 20-27) to get some writing done. I came away with four poems, a couple of other...
Parable of the Long Spoons

Parable of the Long Spoons

I’d never heard this story before. The gist of it is that a man asks the difference between heaven and hell. He is shown a door where people are starving, despite a huge pot of delicious-smelling stew being at their disposal, because all they have to feed themselves...
Writing Recap January and February

Writing Recap January and February

My big writing adventure in January was Tennessee Mountain Writers’ January Jumpstart on January 18-19, in Oak Ridge, TN. We had two workshop speakers, Lisa Coffey for Poetry and Robert Gipe for Fiction. I was in Robert Gipe’s workshop. As always, Robert was...
You and the World Have a Chance

You and the World Have a Chance

Richard Hugo wrote, “Writing is a way of saying that you and the world have a chance.” This gives me hope in a seemingly less hopeful world. The world as I’ve known it my whole life doesn’t seem to have much of a chance most days, but I’ve not been writing so much...
Reading Minds

Reading Minds

I’ve been reading minds – great minds – and their lush words lately. Part of taking the chapbook class I’m taking with Connie Green is that I’m supposed to read three poems each day. I have failed at this goal miserably for weeks. Up until the past week three-four...