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MFA program

  • Cutbank literary journal online competition

    October 5, 2009

    • My beautiful friend and most exquisite writer, Megan Kruse, has asked for my help in publicizing Cutbank's  online literary competition.  She is in her second (last) year in the MFA program at Missoula, Mt. and is now an online editor for the journal.  It's a classy publication.  Link below.  http://www.cutbankonline.org/ 
  • Finding Your Inner Compass

    March 16, 2009

    • We live in a noisy culture -- deliciously, horribly, overwhelmingly, fascinatingly noisy. The kind of work we do as writers and artists both arises from our lives and has to resist those circumstances, in order to happen at all. How is it possible to write poetry or fiction, to create a performance, to make a song, painting, sculpture, or collage? All day long, our email dings, our friends invite ...