How does a writer improve? In this episode, two prominent writers and writing professors from North Carolina State University’s graduate program in creative writing share their insight into the creative process. With over 50 years of teaching experience between them, poet Dorianne Laux and fiction writer John Kessel offer advice to all levels of writers, reminding us to always try “once more, with feeling.”
Podcast Notes:
Writing allows people to open the mind and the heart. Encourages expression of things that are not encouraged in their social groups. Teaches people how to express themselves. We all have some capacity to write and to respond to it. Fans out in their lives beyond just writing. The teacher’s job… knows things that do and don’t work and why. Try to understand what the writer is trying to say and help them say it. Can’t break the rules until you know how to play the game. Help writer make it interesting to the reader (the “heat”).
North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC)
California Poets in the Schools Program (K-12): http://www.cpits.org/
Pablo Neruda: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/pablo-neruda
– Letter to Miguel: http://www.amazon.com/Letter-Miguel-Otero-Silva-Caracas/dp/B0006YN9O4
Ursula K. Le Guin: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/
Herman Melville: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/herman-melville
Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning: “Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?“: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173001
Sharon Olds: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/sharon-olds
Karen Joy Fowler: http://karenjoyfowler.com/
E. M. Forester: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster
Producers: Ray Crampton and Abigail Browning
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Music Provided by: Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five featuring Hilary Alexander: http://www.campusfive.com
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The Association of Writers and Writing Programs is a premier annual event with over 12,000 attendees. This year's conference will include over 2,000 presenters and over 550 readings, panels and craft lectures. The accompanying bookfair hosts over 700 exhibitors consisting of presses, journals and literary organizations from all over the world.
Join our regular host, Abigail Browning, and our Reviews Editor, Greg Brown, to hear what Tate Street has in store for this year's show as well as some hints and tips for new attendees.
Most importantly, if you'll be at the AWP conference, come see us at booth #1512.
Podcast Notes:
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP): https://www.awpwriter.org
AWP Conference: https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/
Elly Bookman's Review of Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine: http://tatestreet.org/2015/02/23/a-script-for-all-citizens-citizen-an-american-lyric-by-claudia-rankine/
Favorite Poem Project: http://www.favoritepoem.org/
Tate Street activities at AWP 2015: http://tatestreet.org/2015/03/31/partnership-with-pinsky-favorite-poem-project-at-awp-2015/
Producers: Ray Crampton and Abigail Browning
Produced by: tatestreet.org: http://tatestreet.org
Music Provided by: Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five featuring Hilary Alexander: http://www.campusfive.com
Podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tatestreetorg
Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/tatestreetorg
Podcast Email: mailto:writeus@tatestreet.org