I’m part of a lovely writers’ group called the Claremont Forum Writers’ Workshop. The participants all have different strengths, which add up to multi-headed critique monster (as moderator-extraordinaire Janet Beech would say). I’ve sent my entire memoir through the reading and critiquing process for comments and constructive criticism, which improved my manuscript so much, for […]
I receive the e-newsletter from BrainPickings.org every Sunday, which is a labor of love by one woman named Maria Popova. This week, just like every week, Maria shared many items, including a poem by Derek Walcott. A poet and playwright from Saint Lucia in the Caribbean, Walcott wrote “Love after Love,” a piece about loving thyself, […]