Wednesday, March 28, 2007

the reasons we love

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A couple of weeks ago, I used an excerpt of Beth Kephart ’s A Slant of Sun in class to talk about emotional distance—writing the hard stuff...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

four decades of feminist mamas

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In my class this week we read Miriam Peskowitz ’s “Cheerleader” and an excerpt of Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born . We’ ve now read motherhoo...
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Sunday, March 11, 2007

brooks and my failure with form

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I just read Gwendolyn Brooks' Selected Poems for one of my book clubs. I'm actually embarrassed to admit that this is the first tim...
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Sunday, March 4, 2007

prematurity, disability, and Past Due

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I have been thinking about this for a couple of weeks. On February 20 th , there was a story on NPR about the gestationally youngest (known...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

the truth of it

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I said I would dedicate a whole post to Sharon Olds, and this is it (though this doesn’t mean that I won’t post about her writing in the fut...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

mother love and Snow Flower

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I just finished a wonderful novel: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. It’s a story set in nineteenth century China about enduring ...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

when soccer and writing meet

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Friday night, D. and I and a bunch of friends went to see the Zinedine Zidane movie at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. It's a do...
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