Creative non-fiction – The Philosophy of Contemporary Song

Intuition and Creativity

I’m fortunate enough to be teaching an Introduction to Creative Writing class this semester. Last Thursday was the first day of class. I encouraged my students to pay attention to the people around them: how they spoke, acted, seemed to think, as that will help them write characters. But that led me down a bitContinue reading “Intuition and Creativity”

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A Taxonomy of Feedback…

I had a great time the first week of October workshopping poetry and creative non-fiction with other writers at the St. Augustine Writer’s Conference hosted by Connie May Fowler. The best things I heard there, in no particular order: Sascha Feinstein (poetry and creative non-fiction workshop leader) described people he’d met who were so completelyContinue reading “A Taxonomy of Feedback…”

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And some days it’s nothing but bad news…

Back in July of 2011 I had the privilege of traveling to Graz, Austria. I had been invited to present a paper on the relationships between seventeenth-century pietism, Kierkegaard, and twentieth-century existentialism. I had the pleasure of reading aloud a paragraph by Heidegger and then exclaiming to the audience, “Why the hell do we readContinue reading “And some days it’s nothing but bad news…”