Keeping Records
When I spent two weeks at the VCCA last year, I wrote poem after poem after poem about Virginia—growing up there, burying […]
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Thoughts on the Fourth of July
When I think of the Fourth of July, I think of stories. Fifty-nine years ago, my grandparents took advantage of cheap reception hall […]
Writers as Readers
The Writers’ Room of Boston held its annual reading on June 9, featuring members and fellows reading from their works-in-progress in a […]
Artist Self
Several years ago I wrote a few short stories, one after another, that each had some kind of artist for a protagonist. […]
WROB Annual Reading on June 9, 2015
The Writers’ Room of Boston is hosting our Annual Reading on Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at Lesley University’s Marran Gallery. The Gallery […]
Summer Reading
Recently, I walked into a bookstore with my nine-year-old daughter and said, choose a book you want—anything under ten dollars. She surprised me […]
From Reading to Writing
One of my most vivid childhood memories is among my most painful. It was the first day of first grade, and our task […]
On Acceptance
When I enter the Writers’ Room of Boston, the successful works of writers greet me. Displayed in the foyer are the completed […]
The Murky, Glorious Middle
I’m in the middle of an MFA thesis, in the middle of revising a story, one that I’ve been writing, on and […]
The ‘You’ in Memoir
Memoir: it’s all about me, me, me. And yet in reality the focus is not on “me” at all—it’s on “you,” the […]