A busy week that I began in one state and finished in another, playing catchup all the while. I decided to pick up my Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams this week, since reading H.D. put me in the mood for another Imagist-ish poet, and I particularly enjoy the short descriptive verses from WCW's earlier… Continue reading NaPoWriMo Week Three: That’s the way it is with me somehow
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NaPoWriMo Week Two: The City by the Sea
For week 2, I carried around a book of the collected poems of H.D., one of the first poets to be identified with the Imagist movement and a fascinating lady in her own right. Her love life alone would make an amazing book. Monday Just a short poem, "Sea Violet." Like many of the poems in… Continue reading NaPoWriMo Week Two: The City by the Sea
You should message me if: you read women’s fiction
Book Riot posted this excerpt from a recent interview with Meg Wolitzer, whose careful, observant fiction I really enjoy. Wolitzer often speaks out against various institutional biases against women authors, and in this interview she theorizes about the way packaging can discourage male readers from picking up new books by female authors. Book Riot's Josh Corman… Continue reading You should message me if: you read women’s fiction
Social Media in the Age of Amazon
I began and abandoned a Goodreads account when I started reading for my doctoral program's qualifying exams. My notes and my seemingly slow progress were too personal to share even with the handful of friends who used it; I was not ready to admit to anyone outside of my program that we don't read every… Continue reading Social Media in the Age of Amazon
NaPoWriMo Week One: Kitchen Magic
My first NaPoWriMo goal--to read a poem every day--was an easy pleasure. Whether I picked a poem at random to read aloud at the end of the day or read several poems in quiet quick succession on the subway, I looked forward to the daily routine. My second NaNoWriMo goal--to write one poem every week--is… Continue reading NaPoWriMo Week One: Kitchen Magic
NaPoWriMo for the overworked
Keep enough bookish friends around, and you'll hear about NaNoWriMo every November. I've always wistfully declined to participate; a month dedicated to writing in the dreary fall only serves to remind me of the mother of all unfinished writing projects--my dissertation. But when I heard of NaPoWriMo for the first time last week, I was intrigued.… Continue reading NaPoWriMo for the overworked
Sara Davis 