Monthly Archives: November 2008

writers & journals

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Writer Mimi Schwartz visited here Tuesday and gave a wonderful reading on her new book Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father’s German Village. She offered some interesting insights about selecting the point of view for the text, how writers come to select a topic for a piece, and to name or not name percise details in creative nonfiction (here the small town). I was honored to meet her. Wow.

I’ve also found a couple of new literary jounals I’m fond of: The Broken Plate and Roanoke Review.

writers here

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here in my homeland, many, many wonderful writers have visited over the last few weeks. Poets and editor jim cihlar read from his collection, as did william reichard. Another poet paul guest is up to visit wednesday. Tayari Jones read from her novel The Untelling. And, Dorothy Allison spoke at the lgtbqa history month banquet and gave a public reading the next night. Amazing! And, Naomi Shihab Nye, who I saw read in DC at split this rock in March, will visit next semester. Wow.