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Susan Rich's Blog
April 23, 2010
- Two years. Two years since I sent my manuscript to White Pine Press and Dennis Maloney said he would consider it. Another six months or so until he wrote to say, "Yes"! In two days, The Alchemist's Kitchen, will be launched at 3:00 PM, Sunday @ Open Books in Seattle. Your presence is requested. Can you come? I just finished shopping for the after party because this is a celebration. ...
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April 23, 2010
- Two years. Two years since I sent my manuscript to White Pine Press and Dennis Maloney said he would consider it. Another six months or so until he wrote to say, "Yes"! In two days, The Alchemist's Kitchen, will be launched at 3:00 PM, Sunday @ Open Books in Seattle. Your presence is requested. Can you come? I just finished shopping for the after party because this is a celebration. ...
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March 25, 2010
- I just couldn't resist this from Nicholas Kristoff's recommendation. If you double-click on this image you can see the larger picture which shows specific word changes. Also, I am completely enamored with that slightly curved index finger. I want to show this photograph to my students (after spring break) to show them that even President Obama has to revise. Actually, "has ...
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March 7, 2010
- Please humor me tonight. I am not keene on using this blog for self promotion. Usually I try hard to avoid indulging in the story of me. However, my new book The Alchemist's Kitchen has arrived after four long years. As of tonight, you can order personally signed copies from me via my website. I offer this incase you are like me and buying a signed copy of a book means much more ...
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February 28, 2010
- Sundering. Vessel. Decal-ed plexiglass. Mark Doty read last night for Seattle's amazing poetry program coordinated by our own Rebecca Hoogs and it was the best reading of the season. Maybe the best poetry reading of the decade! It is a rare poet that can entertain and educate, charm and come off as completely authentic. I know I can't marry Mark Doty, but maybe I can adopt him as my poetry ...
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February 6, 2010
- The Writer's Life: Proofing the Proofs for (I hope) the Final Time ...This is the part of the book process that I find the most difficult. Not only do I worry incessantly that I am missing embarrassing typos, but my poems start to look very tired after the fourth, fifth, tenth go round. I usually don't obsess about whether my poems are good or bad -- they just are -- like my cats or my life. ...
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February 6, 2010
- The Writer's Life: Proofing the Proofs for (I hope) the Final Time ...This is the part of the book process that I find the most difficult. Not only do I worry incessantly that I am missing embarrassing typos, but my poems start to look very tired after the fourth, fifth, tenth go round. I usually don't obsess about whether my poems are good or bad -- they just are -- like my cats or my life. ...
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January 9, 2010
- We begin with the visual. Ekphrastic poetry is a response in words to a painting, photograph, dance, building, sculpture, Ikea catalog, child’s drawing, or bumper sticker. An ekphrastic poem begins with inspiration from another piece of art and with the intuitive understanding that art begets art. In a sense, the art object becomes the rough draft of the poem. Crab Creek Review has been ...
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December 26, 2009
- Mari L'Esperance's debut collection, The Darkened Temple, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, is a book I have returned to again and again during the past month. It is impressive both for its charged content and form. In other words, the poems work not only as individual lyrics, but the book creates a unified field ~ an extended experience of breaking apart and rebuilding an identity. ...
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December 24, 2009
- I believe in writing poems about food. For awhile, I was convinced that writing about the joy of pastry or the taste of Russian black bread might keep me from needing to indulge. I imagined the diet book, "How to Write Food Poems and Fit into Your Size 6 Jeans." There was a time when I couldn't write a poem without mentioning bread or wine. I tend to write about different obsessions, ...
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December 17, 2009
- Speaking Pictures: A Poetry WorkshopSaturday, February 13, 2010 11 am“Painting is mute poetry, and poetry a speaking picture.” —Simonides “Look at the subject, think about it before photographing, look until it becomes alive and looks back into you.” —Edward Steichen Poets Susan Rich and Lillias Bever lead a workshop on ekphrasis, poems written about visual art. Famous models of ...
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December 7, 2009
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Dear Reader,
I am leaving for a writing retreat
and master class tomorrow morning. My blog is not yet a month old and I
wonder if it will survive my time away in the woods. As someone who is
new to blogging and not 100% certain what she is doing here, I would
love to hear any thoughts on what has been useful to you so far. I am
determined that my blog ...
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December 7, 2009
- Dear Reader, I am leaving for a writing retreat and master class tomorrow morning. My blog is not yet a month old and I wonder if it will survive my time away in the woods. As someone who is new to blogging and not 100% certain what she is doing here, I would love to hear any thoughts on what has been useful to you so far. I am determined that my blog needs to be much more than a ...
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November 27, 2009
- Here is a call for submissions that I came across today. I love the film analogy. The press looks very new, but it is in Minnesota - and that makes me think well of them. Really, I know nothing except what's here. I did send some poems today; I hope you do, too. Benu Press Editors Steve Fellner and Phil Young are in the process of creating an anthology about social justice. These are ...
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November 21, 2009
- I love looking at these photographs as they remind me what a perfect evening we all had. Since I almost never take photographs, Tim Woods' images seem very magical to me. I love that Madeline's corsage (from two of her admirers) figures prominently, that the age range of attendees was vast and wide - as seen here, that Madeline looked happier and more relaxed than I'd ever seen her before. Notice ...
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