Charles Baxter Discusses His Writing Process
Master writer Charles Baxter was on hand last night at SubText bookstore in Saint Paul to give sage advice and walk us through one of his stories in progress. He was born in Minneapolis, graduated from...
View ArticleIn the Garden Where People Throw Their Trash
Congratulations to the 2012-2013 Loft Mentor Series winners. How thrilling to find myself among the finalists in the poetry category. The winners now get to spend the next six months or so working...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Charles Bukowski! (America’s filthiest, lowlife poet)
In high school I hid his books from my mom and the nuns. In college, it was the nuns and my English Lit professors. Though we may all be hanged or hangable, Bukowski was born with more than his fair...
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We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. –Mark Twain, The...
View ArticleLief Magazine Celebrates Life with Reading
“I had as lief have heard the night-raven.”–Benedick to Don Pedro, Much Ado About Nothing Editor Mike Finley emceed last night’s reading at SubText Bookstore and what a reading it was. Fifteen of the...
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Because of the spirit, I say. Because of the heart. Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us...
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Autumn Day Rainer Maria Rilke Lord: it is time. The summer was immense. Lay your shadow on the sundials and let loose the wind in the fields. Bid the last fruits to be full; give them another two more...
View ArticleMeeting at an Airport
by TAHA MUHAMMAD ALI You asked me once, on your way back from the midmorning trip to the spring: “What do you hate and who do you love?” And I answered, from behind the eyelashes of my surprise, my...
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey. –William Butler Yeats
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The Poet’s Occasional Alternative by GRACE PALEY I was going to write a poem I made a pie insteadit took about the same amount of time of course the pie was a final drafta poem would have some distance...
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What delight! What felicity! You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do...
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