Tag Archives: Creative Writing
Discovering Muriel Rukeyser as a Young Writer
On her 16th birthday, my best friend Jess received a copy of Out of Silence: Selected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser from her mother. Jess and I didn’t live in the same state, so we were avid letter writers; after that … Continue reading
Waterlily Fire
Elisabeth Däumer’s post Context for Waterlily Fire rightly points out the theme of interrelatedness that runs through the Living Archive’s featured poem this month. When I first read “Waterlily Fire,” I was struck even more by the idea of impermanence … Continue reading
The Brilliant Truth, Rukeyser vs. Oprah
Against all sage advice from my colleagues, I’m thinking about proposing a class. I want to call it “True Lies: Untruth in Nonfiction,” a creative writing class that explores the gray area that Elisabeth called attention to in my last … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolom, Adam Gopnick, Adam Novy, Creative Writing, James Frey, Journalism, Modernism, Oprah, Pedagogy, Power, The Book of the Dead, Tim O'Brien, Truth, Werner Herzog
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Synecdoche, Minnesota
My bio on the homepage for “Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive” states that I just completed a novel partly inspired by The Book of the Dead, and I wanted to use this post to relate how Rukeyser’s poetry has influenced … Continue reading