Tag Archives: Creative Process

Plancks Mechanical Gut:

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.

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Genrephobia

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.

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Works with Soul: Dave Harrity

Works with Soul: Dave Harrity
Ruminate will be co-hosting a panel with our new friend Dave Harrity (poet and founder of Antler) at the Calvin College Festival of Faith and Writing in a few weeks, so we thought this would be the perfect time to introduce him to you all. So, Ruminate readers, meet Dave.
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Fiction, Tunes, Teaching, & Parenting:

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!

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Nourishment

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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