Three Good Things
Jan. 13th, 2005 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susanstinsonI recorded the piece that I wrote for my parents' 50th anniversary for WAMC, the public radio station in Albany, which can be heard in Western Massachusetts and a bunch other places, too. They're going to get back to me with the air date, but the producer said that she was thinking of holding for around Valentine's Day, which never would have occured to me as relevant. They don't post commentaries on their website, though, so, no listening from other continents or time zones this time.
I'm taking a great $5 poetry class at Smith College -- it's every afternoon for a week, and the instructor, Patrick Donnelly, is giving this really lovely, beautifully structured and inspired overview of what poems are and do and various strategies for making them work, backed up with all of this great poetry as examples, and it is all blowing through me like a good stiff wind, all that heightened language and those lyric leaps and the beautifully rendered impulse to get things said.
And I'm going for a week to a writer's retreat on Lake Superior in Northern Minnesota in August. I've never been to Minnesota before.
I'm taking a great $5 poetry class at Smith College -- it's every afternoon for a week, and the instructor, Patrick Donnelly, is giving this really lovely, beautifully structured and inspired overview of what poems are and do and various strategies for making them work, backed up with all of this great poetry as examples, and it is all blowing through me like a good stiff wind, all that heightened language and those lyric leaps and the beautifully rendered impulse to get things said.
And I'm going for a week to a writer's retreat on Lake Superior in Northern Minnesota in August. I've never been to Minnesota before.
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Date: 2005-01-13 02:40 pm (UTC)Good one!
Date: 2005-01-13 01:32 pm (UTC)Sounds pretty damn idyllic!
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Date: 2005-01-13 03:22 pm (UTC)I've always thought, though, that the best time to see Lake Superior is during an autumn storm ... I love the gray, choppy water and the temperate rainforest feel of early Fall on Lake Superior.
And speaking of poetry, you may want to head over to Hibbard and immerse yourself in a little Tillie Olsen (http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/yft.htm), whose I Want You Women Up North to Know (http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olsen/north.htm) is still one of the best poems I've ever read.
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Date: 2005-01-13 03:52 pm (UTC)August is a particularly good time to leave the steaming, humid east coast, so, forewarned about the mosquitoes -- I usually don't use repellant, but this is sounding serious, and I'll be miles from town without a car -- so I'll remember to keep my skin covered, slather something on, and hope for the best.
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Date: 2005-01-13 06:25 pm (UTC)or, you know, you can stop breathing. but i wouldn't recommend that. *grin*
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