Poetry
Who I am
Athens Library Author Fair
As part of The Lamplighter 2015 Artist Writer Mashup, I have been asked to answer a few questions about myself:
Who are you?
What experience do you have writing?
How did you find Lamplighter?
What do you expect to accomplish while participating in the project?
Speak up:
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#AWM2015, #Fiction, #NaPoMo2015, #Nonfiction, Lauren Clarke, Patrick Doyle, Poetry, Solstice MFA Program, Women writers, Writing, writing lifeWhy I Am Not an Artist (What?!?)
I’ve been missing from this site all winter. I did so well last year, posting once a month, but the cold, dreary months did me in. I spent much of January, February, and March huddled under blankets on the couch, upstairs in my bed, or at my desk working on poetry projects (with gloves). But the birds are singing spring and those poetry projects are out in the world trying to find a larger audience, and April is the time each year when I begin new things, when the creative juices for new projects begin to flow.
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#AWM2015, #Fiction, #NaPoMo2015, #Nonfiction, art, Lamplighter Magazine, Lauren Clarke, Patrick Boyle, Poetry, Writing, writing lifeWhat I Always Do
I had never been to New York City until I went to visit my daughter, Morgan, when she was working as an intern at the Today Show in 2012. My visit there was just before Halloween and just before Hurricane Sandy hit. We must have walked miles that long weekend in October. My feet have yet to recover. But every step was worth it. New York City is amazing, overwhelming, a dream place you have seen on TV, in movies, and have read about in books. There are so many people and famous places that it feels surreal.
One afternoon and evening while we were there when the skies were already beginning to darken as the hurricane grew near, we took the subway to view the Statue of Liberty from a park along the water. (Read more…)