Just heard the news that poet, essayist, and feminist thinker Adrienne Rich died yesterday at the age of 82. I’m sorry she’s gone, and I’m very, very grateful for all the true things she has written, including this: No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone. The accidents happen, we’re not heroines, they happen in our [...]
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RIP Adrienne Rich
outer alliance recommends workshops for glbtiq writers
Just read this post (and added my two cents, too) on the Outer Alliance, about workshops and writing teachers who are friendly to and supportive of GLBTIQ writers and writing. (They use the term QUILTBAG, which I love, and which may be gaining enough traction that I can actually start using.) If you’re different from [...]
ok cupid’s wisdom for writers
I just read this post by Georgina Bruce, an up-and-coming writer I admire, and it made me think of this research done by the online dating service OK Cupid on “The Mathematics of Beauty.” Bruce said this about an experience she had with a bad review of her writing: I once read a review about [...]
veterans day writer’s bookshelf: haunted by combat
Here’ s a book I’ve been reading for background research that I can recommend much more broadly: Haunted by Combat: Understanding PTSD in War Veterans by Daryl Paulson and Stanley Krippner. Paulson is a combat veteran of the Vietnam war who later earned a Ph.D in psychology, and a psychology professor. I picked up the book because [...]