Writing Story / Finding Poetry / Freeing Voice

Dear Writers,

I will be teaching, in partnership with Demetria Martinez, this August at the Leaven Center in Michigan, as every summer for the last 6 years. Ah, heaven.
August 5-9. Re-Dream a Just World: Writing and Social Change, with Anya Achtenberg and Demetria Martinez.
For information and registration, please see:  http://www.leaven.org/upcoming.htm#redream

I am extremely pleased to be teaching writing [...]

Dear Friends,
I won’t tell you know where I have been. But I will tell you where I am going to be. And what I will be doing in relation to teaching writing, right here in the Twin Cities in Minnesota.
Here we go, classes first, then news of a workshop, locally in Minneapolis:
Finding the Real Story: [...]

April 30, 2009
 
Let’s face it. An economy in shock is not such a shock if you are not only a writer, but a writer from and remaining in the working class.
 
I am not allergic to the thought of making big money with my writing. Not at all. But the real joy would not be [...]

May 6, 2008,
 
A breathless time, spring, with all its upheaval. Its approach, its elusiveness. Its promise.
 
Forgive my lack of blogginess. Lots of good work in the way, some of it to meet a publication deadline. My novella, The Stories of Devil-Girl, will be published in print in June 2008 by Modern History Press as part [...]