Category: writing life

Friday Five: recent reads

Five things that caught my eye recently:

  1. Inspiration in a flash (or fifty). Read some of the stories selected for the Wigleaf top 50 2024 longlist of flash fictions. Congratulations to the authors who made this list!
  2. The century’s 100 best books, according to the New York Times (gift link).
  3. How to doomproof your reading. Good stuff from Junot Diaz’s StoryWorlds Substack.
  4. Happy five-year anniversary to one of my favorite online poetry journals, Sparks of Calliope. And in case you missed it, here’s my April 2024 Friday Five interview with editor Randal Burd.
  5. Enjoy this collection of summer-y poems by Mary Oliver, William Carlos Williams, Derek Walcot, and others, courtesy of Maya C. Popa.

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Rusty

Yesterday I found myself in need of a change of pace, so instead of spending a bit of free time writing or editing, I picked up my acoustic guitar and played. I tuned the thing to double drop D, just to give myself a little more variety than the usual standard tuning and maybe exercise some different parts of my brain.

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