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  • Fire Alert

    July 13, 2009

    • We gave a new twist to a writing exercise at Art Camp in the Sierra. It grew out of a discussion the month before at Wilbur Hot Springs, in the seminar “Writing and Powerful Experience.” The question of what is powerful circled around core issues as the answer, around what’s at the center of one’s personal journey. Facing solitude? Touching some vast creative energy? The sorrow of ...
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  • Solstice Greetings

    December 26, 2008

  • What in the world what was Chalcedony doing right?

    November 29, 2008

    • I am looking at the galleys for Chalcedony's Second Ten Songs and I am totally gassed by the reader's responses to Chalcedony's First Ten Songs! Now selecting a few for the new back cover. What in the world what was Chalcedony doing right?
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  • tangible flesh ...lullaby of mystical musings, salted

    May 21, 2008

    • Just received the first in-depth response to Chalcedony - here it is!"I'm one of those people who never reads the preface, and it took me a couple of references to breasts to realize my perspective was definitely skewed. Back to the preface and... ahhh.... I love how this archetype, as Matson describes Chalcedony, pulls the poet into a lower world of her own deeper wisdom, an initiation ...
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  • Literary Death Match, Episode 8

    April 11, 2008

    • Honesty, I think, was the link common to the very different writers at the Literary Death Match. I listened to every word with moment-to-moment renewed respect, and heard an honesty I aspire to. Andrew's crystal clear, compact glimpses, Rupert's passion and brutal pictures of political ca-ca, Justin Chin's irony and razor humor. Is Sky a genius? Does she have an inspired committee? Superb ...
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