Ana Elsner
July 8, 2009
- My agent wishes I would be monogamous, asks me to choose the one writing bed I will sleep in. ....I am too hard to market sprawled all over the writing landscape, says devorah major in an article about multi-genre writers. This is a harsh reality that most of us are faced with. It forces us to reexamine the true objective of our writing, is it to garner fame and fortune, or rather to exercise the ...
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June 12, 2009
- Ready to take a break? Appreciate a spark of wit? Interested in trying your hand at something new and different? Wanna join the club? Then click and transport yourself here. This is a nifty Red Room feature which I discovered just yesterday. The particular forum is playful and all-inclusive. No need to qualify by first meeting the criteria and agendas of various ...
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April 4, 2009
- "Crank up your espresso machine, you’ll need all the caffeine you can stomach, as the hours go by while you click your way through an endless labyrinth of diaries and diatribes.Pull up your emotional bootstraps and be prepared to wade through a vast pool of heart-wrenching exposés on the minutiae of a million private lives.This journey is not for the faint-hearted. As you deftly maneuver ...
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March 2, 2009
- - If your point of entry into the fabled halls of redroom.com was any other than the homepage, you missed the fact that the RANDALL THEATER POETRY SERIES which I am co-producing and directing is featured and given top billing on the Red Room Front Page in the LITERARY LANDSCAPE column under NOW APPEARING. This special series is comprised of three programs on three consecutive Thursdays in March ...
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August 7, 2008
- As an author I prefer, and practice, selecting a name for my work that is somewhat enigmatic and generates maximum curiosity in the mind of the browser or grazer of bookshelves or online inventories.
Being a wordsmith, I respond strongly to language, especially in the wording of titles. (Yes, first impressions do count for me.) Regrettably, the language of our contemporary culture has been ...
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August 3, 2008
- Gone are the days of deadlines, exhaustive (and exhausting) research, scholarly discipline, operating within rigid outlines, assembling bibliographical references and inserting pesky footnotes... I am POET now, see me roam! Writing poetry affords me the ultimate freedom of mobility and I love it. The dynamics of seeking out ever-changing locales for writing enhances the flow of my poetry from my ...
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July 30, 2008
- It is easy for us to forget about how much garbage we produce because once a week the truck comes along, sweeps up that trash and whisks it away to a landfill out of sight and smell... Go to: www.wecansolveit.org
"We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity," Albert Arnold Gore, Jr(born ...
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July 30, 2008
- My in-home office, comfortably appointed with a large desk, computer, printer/scanner/fax machine, an ergonomically correct chair and good lighting, is my word processing and editing space; I call editing UN-writing... http://www.pw.org/content/ana_elsner I pen down most of my poetry on location, meaning, for example, on an airplane, on a park bench, at the library, when sitting in my parked car ...
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July 28, 2008
- I follow where she leads me along my lonely road, sometimes laughing, sometimes weeping and everything in between. The primary distinction of the artist [and poet] is that he [she] must actively cultivate that state which most men necessarily must avoid: the state of being alone, James Baldwin (1924-1987)I try to be gentle with The Muse, but she is not always gentle with me, often-times ...
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July 8, 2008
- ...a bad case of the doldrums?
This will cheer you right up,especially so if you harbor a secret nostalgia for the 50s (as I do):
Enjoy Chip n' Dale's 'Salt Peanuts' by the jazz duo and quirky (then) novelty act 'The Nutty Squirrels', founded by jazzman Don Elliott and TV composer Alexander "Sascha" Burland. Egged on by the animated music group "Alvin and the Chipmunks" created by ...
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