Wordswimmer
Bruce BlackOn writing and the mystery of the writing process
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Out of thin air
Waiting for words
to appear on the page
my pen poised
above a blank
sheet of paper
like a heron
patiently watching
the water as smooth
as the surface of glass
for a sign of life--
the slightest ripple--
waiting for the perfect
m...
Between the lines: Jody Gladding's "Blue Willow"
I found Gladding’s poem, “Blue Willow,” in Poetry 108, an anthology of poems that Billy Collins selected, and immediately felt as if her words cast a magic spell, pulling me into the poem so strongly that I wasn’t just reading the words on...
A space of your own
When you’re trying to write, it’s critical to set aside a space of your own that has no distractions, a place where you can let your imagination roam free and take flight without fear of falling.
It’s a place where you can play without fea...
Letter Box: the geometry of loss
It’s excruciatingly hard to describe the pain of losing a young mother, to return to the moment when she took her last breath and then, filled with grief and anger and pain, to try and move on.
But that’s what award-winning poet Rick Black...
Revise, revise, revise
If you want your words
to sing on the page
you need to keep harmonizing,
keep testing different notes, trying
different combinations of words
arranging and rearranging,
then rearranging again
until the words on the page
find the ord...
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Come swim toward a new understanding of the writing process with Bruce Black, who searches for words, poems, and stories on Florida's west coast.
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