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I recently posted that Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Kubla Khan is my favorite poem. Then I found this clip of Benedict Cumberbatch reading it. Although the cadence and pace are not the same as the way I typically read it, which is really similar to the way my college professors did, the change in pace shifted my […]
Read More Kubla Khan Read by Benedict CumberbatchKeats read by Benedict Cumberbatch…poetry month. (Yep, that’s the only reason I found this…poetry month.) ‘Til next time, Jessica
Read More Ode to A NightengaleI get these Daily Rumpus emails by Stephen Elliott, and Saturday he linked to this video on The Rumpus site. The Gap by Ira Glass came at a good time. Reading over the short stories I’m working on, and recent drawings left me with the it’s-all-crap feeling. All the creative types I know suffer through […]
Read More For Those in Doubt…Including MeOh, this is just beautiful. Are you a Twin Peaks fan? It’s weird how certain topics come up in conversation over and over again. I’d watched Twin Peaks a bit when it first aired, but I was a bit young (my parents really weren’t all that thrilled about their 13 year old watching it). I hadn’t really thought […]
Read More Creating the Theme for Twin PeaksBard College has a new professor starting in Spring 2014. This professor has never attended a university, but is teaching an advanced writing workshop that will be exploring the history of the fantastic, approaches to fantasy fiction, and the meaning of fantasy today. Students will be lining up to take this class…or they will if […]
Read More The Professor I Wish I Could Have – Neil Gaiman Joins Bard CollegeThis is not my normal book review…for a couple of reasons. Discovering Joye is a book about discovering Joye Kanelakos’s poetry and melding it seamlessly with Jim Stovall’s own story. Both of these are powerful and moving on their own, but together it is just…wow. Truthfully, I’m pretty familiar with both the poetry and the […]
Read More Discovering Joye…This May Be the Coolest Thing EverI bought Fragile Things several months ago and it sat in my to-read pile for a while. Then I pulled it out and started to slide slowly down into the short stories and poems in this collection. This is the book that I decided, with your help (Thank you SO much!), to have Mr. Gaiman […]
Read More Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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