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Mar.22.2013
When the four-year-old daughter of Frank Bures, contributing editor to Poets & Writers, asked him to tell her about the sad and scary parts of his life, he did. As a writer and editor he understood the power of narrative, yet he didn’t understand why his daughter listened so intently to...
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Mar.04.2013
At the Tattered Cover signing in Denver last Tuesday night, BK Loren told us that creative nonfiction was a form she only recently discovered. “I mean, how many people here just rush right out to get the newest nonfiction book?” Well, apparently dozens of us did that night—at least...
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Jan.11.2013
The moment the nurse laid my newborn son’s swaddled body next to my pillow, I looked into his eyes and a guttural sound rose from my belly, up my throat and out my mouth – like the sound a cow makes when her calf is just moments old. The PRIMAL SOUND rose - deeper than any cognitive behavior...
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Jan.11.2013
Okay, I confess. I want this title. I want this cover. I covet the complexity of this accomplished work and the gracious wisdom of this accomplished author.
To read Priscilla Stuckey’s memoir KISSED BY A FOX requires patience – it is not for the reader seeking a “fast book”...
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Jan.11.2013
“These are holy moments, a sacred communion,” Junot Diaz said as he began his November 11, 2012 talk at Lighthouse Writers* in Denver. He was referring to the brief time he was about to spend with dozens of people crowded into the lower-level grotto of this historic Denver brownstone. ...
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Nov.05.2012
Today, I pulled a water-stained book off the shelf that still smelled musty from the Denver flood that ravaged our home 47 years ago. I thought of those whose homes were in the path of Hurricane Sandy, and of the irreplace- able things we lose. Then I turned to a small chapbook sitting...
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Sep.25.2012
Writers are brave. It’s what we do best. We cast aside our fear of the blank page, of the unknown, dip our proverbial pen into the ink, and commit word to paper—one stark letter after another. We leave the safety of “out there” and enter the unchartered landscape of “in here.”...
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Jul.24.2012
TODAY, reading Rosie Sultan’s debut novel Helen Keller in Love, I thought about the scene in Black Beauty when the barn catches on fire and Black Beauty’s groom covers the horse’s eyes with a scarf and leads him outside to safety. Black Beauty’s shrill whinny pierces...
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May.07.2012
I never expected to be thinking about flutes when I went to Peru, nor when I began reading Ron Rash's new novel THE COVE on the return flight. Nor did I expect, on the way to Machu Picchu, to sit next to Ulla, a beautiful Finish flautist with a doctorate from Juilliard. And when I fell in love...
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Feb.27.2012
A few years ago, Narrative Magazine publisher and editor Tom Jenks, at an intensive 5-day writing workshop in Denver, taught us this:
A story cannot be the continual excavation of what has already happened (back story), but must be the unfolding of what is about to happen.
I figured I should...
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Jan.03.2012
Not really a blog post, but thought the Red Room Readers who might not have seen Publisher Weekly's Top 10 would be interested. Here we go:
The Best of the Best Books of 2011: Overall Top 10 1. The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obreht [21] 2. The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides [15] 3. 1Q84, Haruki...
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Dec.14.2011
Sometimes I miss a certain place, like the aspen draw on the ranch in Wyoming where Thimbleberries grow thick by July, and where snow gathers by October, staying until May. Sometimes I miss a person, like the young Greek girl Antigone whom I barely knew, but knew well enough to lie on a hill near...
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Nov.15.2011
Horses have been studying humans from across the safety of a river, or from the overlook of a high ridge, or from across an expanse of grassland, for thousands of years. The oldest archealogical evidence links horses and humans as far back as 400,000 to 600,000 years ago, not as companions, but as...
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Aug.11.2011
I just watched Eve Ensler's powerful new 12-minute video on TED. I immediately wanted to reach out to all the women in my life. And to all the men who love but are confused by the women in their lives. Please don’t miss Suddenly, my body. Watch it with a friend. Watch it right now. Watch it...
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Jul.11.2011
Well, for one thing, the first two book titles made the list of Oprah's top 27 summer reads. The third, Becoming Animal, should have, but didn't.
A Small Hotel, Robert Olen Butler's latest work of fiction, is an unapologetic romantic story of a couple in love for nearly 25 years but now in the...
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Page Lambert , Senior Associate with the Children & Nature Network and International League of Conservation Writers Fellow, has been guiding and mentoring women who want to reconnect with nature for 17 years, leading creative outdoor writing adventures...
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Children and Nature Network
American Indian College Fund
The Quivira Coalition
Center for Whole Communities
A Room of Her Own...