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A visit to Katy Fischer’s studio
Katy Fischer. I met her at the Vermont Studio Center this June. Her work is alphabets, syntax, air, light, color, small fields. She had a table full of ceramic fragments. In the hottest days, at the...
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in case of Paris
Someone on Twitter was looking for recommendations for Paris, and I remembered that about four years ago I made a guidebook full of the things I loved (places I went often when I lived in France) for...
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Gillian Sze // PEELING RAMBUTAN
I first encountered Gillian Sze‘s work when she sent a poem that ended up in 111O/6, the broadsides issue. Since then, I’ve followed her occasional posts on Twitter and looked out for her writing...
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Dickinson House
There is a story I want to tell. The story is about togetherness: that’s its short version. The longer version could go back to the pine table in my family’s kitchen where my brothers and I did...
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Quilts
When Dickinson House became a possibility, not just a dream, one of the first things I knew was that it would need quilts. I have so many friends who make quilts; my mother makes quilts. Quilts and...
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our yearly gift guide
* b o o k s * “Coal Mountain Elementary is an imaginative and shocking reminder of what it means, in the most human and poignant terms, to be a miner, whether in this country or in China, or for that...
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Dear readers, dear writers, greetings from this side of the Year. I hope it finds you well. MIEL has some Plans for 2015. We’ll be putting out a dozen or so books—art, poems, prose, things in...
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Writing workshops at Dickinson House this spring!
Please feel very invited to this three-part writing workshop for “not writers” (but writers are also very welcome) this spring. The workshop will take place on Saturday afternoons in March (14), April...
View ArticleMIEL 2015 gift guide
As in years past, it’s my pleasure to show you some of the beautiful things I’ve found online. If you’re looking for a present at this or any time of year, here are my recommendations. * * * Itsuko...
View ArticleDickinson House writing fellowships – deadline 15 September!
In 2017, two writers (poets, prose writers, playwrights, translators all eligible) will be invited to Dickinson House as fellows for two weeks each. Our past fellows have had some amazing […]
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