Having attended the Kachemak Bay Writer’s Conference in 2006 and 2008 and shared extensively the work which has sprung from this wonderful weekend in Homer, I thought I’d take a minute to cross-post the following article from 49 Writers, No Moose. 49 Writers… is a blog authored by Alaskan author Andromeda Romano-Lax and includes [...]
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Looking Ahead: KBWC 2009
Posted in Kachemak Bay Writer's Conference, Poetry, community, culture, events, glimpses, tagged 49 Writers No Moose, Jeremy Pataky, Kachemak Bay Writer's Conference, Li-Youg Lee on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
800 Seeds
Posted in Kachemak Bay Writer's Conference, Poetry, Writing, community, glimpses on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just noticed this is post #101, so how fitting a poem with a numeric title. I wrote this one during a workshop led by Gayle Brandeis called “Writing from the Senses” in which we were given a strawberry and invited to spend a few minutes with the fruit, getting to know it’s every details [...]
Tradesman as Poet
Posted in Kachemak Bay Writer's Conference, Poetry, culture, glimpses, tagged book proccessing, cataloging, controlled vocabulary, library work, trade on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These two poems emerged out of Joe Enzweiler’s “Tradesman as Poet” workshop. The first one built from some sensory associations with daily work, the second took something unexpected from the first poem to explore a new direction. I never thought the specific language of the library would work its way into my [...]
Home Sweet Home
Posted in Kachemak Bay Writer's Conference, glimpses on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just got back from 3 weeks traveling my unkown homestate of Alaska. Living in Southeast Alaska we’re pretty removed from the rest of this huge, magical land so it was great to have the chance to dust off the roadtripin’ shoes. Juneau to Haines to Homer to Seward to Homer to Kodiak to [...]