Recently I reconnected with the work of a poet whom I have known for many years, Betsy Sholl. She and I went through the same MFA program, lived in the same community, belonged at times to the same writing groups. I have read her poems in great gulps, but not until recently did I study…

After a week of distractions and a chaotic to-do list, I look forward to this afternoon at Lighthouse   Writers’ Workshop. Twice a month people gather in a grand old Denver mansion and write for an  hour or two. I find  comfort in seeing people bend to their keyboards or notebooks, all quiet, all  intent–or…

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This thoughtful guest blog comes to us from Michael Greene, citizen of New Orleans. He and I have known each other for decades and debated more issues than I can name. “I spent the morning thinking about a passage in Henry Miller’s short book “The Time of the Assassins” where he writes that the Surrealists…