Plancks Mechanical Gut:
How the Work of Visual Artist Linnéa Gabriella Spransy Can Get Even a Quantum Physicist Juiced about Art.
Quanta, and theories, and quarks; Oh My!
These words might be the emphatic exclamations of an excited quantum physicist; they are not, however, the first words that one would necessarily use to describe the beauty of Linnéa Spransy’s work.
Read More »Genrephobia
Last year, some friends and I assembled a book club, which, unlike many book clubs, actually does spend a good deal of time talking about the books. We also drink wine and gossip, of course, but not until after the discussion. Also unlike a number of book clubs, ours is coed and ostensibly open to all genres.
Read More »Works with Soul: Dave Harrity
Fiction, Tunes, Teaching, & Parenting:
Notes from Somewhere Inside a Poetry Sabbatical
Ten days (I kid you not) after my first child was born, I received a phone call from a press to whom, several months prior, I’d submitted my second poetry manuscript.
We’d like to publish your book!
Read More »Nourishment
Writing has always been a solitary venture. At a reading I attended in Boulder, Colorado, author Michael Connelly commented on how odd author events were for him, since he spent the majority of his time as a writer alone, inside his own head and the heads of his characters.
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