Tag: writers
member name: Neva B.
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June 03, 2009 04:19 PM EDT --
The title came to me like phrases or entire lines of poetry sometimes come to me: it just popped into my head while I was driving. I get my best ideas at other inconvenient times, too, like when I’m . . .
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May 11, 2009 12:32 PM EDT --
Sometimes people who read my first novel -- St. Peter’s Monsters -- come back to me wanting to know if part of the book, or all of it, is real.
“Is the character Wren based on you?” they ask. . . .
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June 26, 2009 01:39 PM EDT --
Mara mentioned villanelles at Spoken Word last weekend. Here's a form I like: the pantoum.
It is a series of quatrains; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third . . .
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July 10, 2009 01:53 PM EDT --
“Blacksnake.” Jimson Weed , vol. XXIV, new series vol. 8, no. 2 (Fall 2005).
Blacksnake
Coiled in my path like an ampersand.
My heart beats an ellipsis . . . Punctuates the . . .
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June 04, 2009 09:52 AM EDT --
Excerpt from “Sawmill Boys.” Appalachian Heritage, vol. 34, no. 4 (Fall 2006).
For more information about Appalachian Heritage , Berea College's literary journal, and to order back issues, . . .
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May 17, 2009 05:41 PM EDT --
Listen to the recording of Frank X. Walker's interview on Accents http://www.katerinaklemer.com/audio/acce nts_051509.mp3 . Also listen for my poem, Anoint Me , to be read. It starts at about . . .
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June 01, 2009 12:11 PM EDT --
My first book, St. Peter’s Monsters, is set in and around St. Paul and Castlewood, my home towns. When people from the area find out, they say “nothing ever happens here.”
I say, “Something . . .
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May 28, 2009 09:37 AM EDT --
"So tell me about your current writing project." "What's your next book about?"
Nothing breaks me out into a cold sweat faster than statements and questions like these. Why?
Superstition.
Normally . . .
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July 02, 2009 04:09 PM EDT --
When author Alice Hoffman read Roberta Silman’s review of her novel The Story Sisters , the author was not pleased. The review wasn’t stellar but certainly it wasn’t crushing. Hoffman, . . .
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May 14, 2009 11:54 AM EDT --
Listen to Accents every Friday @ 2pm EST on WRFL 88.1 FM Lexington or stream live from wrfl.fm .
This Friday, May 15, they’ll be reading a poem of mine, “Anoint Me.”
Also, the guest that . . .
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June 08, 2009 01:16 PM EDT --
“It’s one of the best novels I’ve read that uses this area as the frame around the story. You captured the beauty of . . . Southwest Virginia in a love story filled with twists and . . .
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June 11, 2009 10:46 AM EDT --
I'm excited to have my work appear in the book anthology We All Live Downstream alongside work by:
• Earl Hamner (creator of the Waltons) • Ashley Judd • Robert Kennedy Jr. • Wendell . . .
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