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Asking questions can lead you to new places. Writing helps bring you to answers. And more questions.
Here, I’ve collected writings on a number of topics. Sometimes they’ve been published elsewhere, and other times they’re just for this blog.
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Twenty Fourteen was a huge year for me. Even so, “the year 2014” sounds like the setting for a sci-fi story, and some of the events still feel as surreal as an alien invasion. I could easily write 5,000 words about everything that happened, but here’s the Reader’s Digest version. 1. I graduated It happened May 3, 2014,…
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what’s a simile for a brick? _____(as hard as a… _____as heavy as a… _____as red as a…) you build descriptions with bricks, not for them, bricks sit, indifferent— at home the shower water turns black at my feet, while obsidian tornadoes twist from nostril tombs, dropping detritus from my mucus membrane; sell the grime…
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Poet Billy Collins looked at me, across the book signing table, and said, “How about: Go fuck yourself?” The former United States poet laureate stared through his round glasses, face stone serious expression. Quite literally, I was asking for it. Billy Collins read Saturday, Nov. 8, at Central Library as a part of Vonnegut Fest…
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Nonprofit provides meals for seniors
Nonprofit provides meals for seniors This is an article I wrote about programs that feed food-insecure seniors.
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Paris.
I am lecturing at UIndy about my trip to Europe in 2011! Not really. But I am reading my poem “Paris” (the 3rd prize winner of the university’s poetry contest). I wrote this poem about one day that my girlfriend and I were walking around the city. We had visited the catacombs, La Tour Eiffel,…
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speaking. writing.
A student of a foreign language cannot merely practice in his or her head without speaking and writing. If the student waits to come across a native speaker, the student will sound ridiculous and ultimately be disappointed by his or her inability to verbally connect to the other person. This is why any student of…
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The Perks of the 90s
Remember the days before everyone had cell phones and Facebook? There was once a golden era that I like to call: The 90s. It lasted for about 10 years. This was back when AOL was cutting edge. I have been thinking about (trying to recall) what life once was like. I recently read Last Call in…
James Figy 