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Vomit On A Plane: A Lesson in Perspective
My family and I recently traveled back to Central Oregon after an extended stay in New England. We had just boarded the plane for the second leg of our three-plane …
On the Virtues of Crying: A Graduation Speech
Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing Program Winter 2014, Freeport, Maine Thank you, Dean Tuchinsky, Justin, Annie, Robin, Stonecoast faculty and staff, friends, families, graduates and distinguished guests. I am so …
On the Lyric Essay
In preparation for my recent graduate student presentation on the lyric essay, I came across an array of interesting quotes and ideas about what, exactly, the lyric essay is. From …
Some Things About Home: A Eulogy for Les
I’m going to ask you to close your eyes and clear your minds. Before I say what I want to say, I just want you to just take a moment …
Inspiring Activism with a Soft Touch: Scott Russell Sanders’ Earth Works
Scott Russell Sanders’ Earth Works: Selected Essays is a book of the author’s collected works spanning thirty years of his writing career, and covering a wide range of topics and …
The Anxiety of Place
I recently finished reading Kristen Iversen’s book, Full Body Burden, and —even as a person familiar with the toxic secrets of government and industry— found the details of the Rocky …
Vivian Gornick’s Use of Character in Fierce Attachments
Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments is a coarse, unflinching memoir about the complex relationship between the author and her fierce, judgmental mother — and how the intellectual and emotional clashes between …
Making Science Read Like a Thriller: Use of Fictional Plot Structure
in Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is an immersive journalism work that reveals the history of the first …
Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge: A Lesson in Braided Form
Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place is a touchstone for the use of the natural landscape to tell a human story. Williams’ book, released in …
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