Tag: the creative process

September 1, 2014 / Vickie Lester

What did you do over your summer vacation?

It’s in His Kiss

August 22, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Writing a novel is a lot like seeing the madonna in your sock drawer…

First of all, you have to be looking… And then you have to be willing to see whoever turns up… Behold — if the blessed one, blighted one, or anyone deigns to reveals itself, herself, himself to you it’s best to pay attention and start writing things down. What’s your…

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January 7, 2014 / Vickie Lester

ArtSake — Amy Dryansky: No Birds Were Harmed in the Making of this Poem

Another captivating voice, I like — strike that — love, the narrative drive of her poetry: Amy Dryansky: No Birds Were Harmed in the Making of this Poem Language is fossil poetry, Emerson said, in reference to I know not what, possibly an aster in stony clay, a theory of…

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