It’s a big week for me as I head up north to the Festival of Faith and Writing. I love this conference, and at this year’s event, besides hanging out with a boatload of truly excellent people, I get to meet my agent face-to-face. I’m also going to be reading at One Poet, One Poem, andContinue reading “This Week in Books and Words and Legos”
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April Showers
It is the end of National Poetry Month today, and while I wrote not a single poem for the month, I have been busy chiseling away at my memoir-in-essays, which has its own sort of lyricism and poetic turns, and that totally counts, right? I have done much to celebrate poetry in April, however, givingContinue reading “April Showers”
Building Community
This past weekend, I spent some time in Indiana with about a dozen other writers who mostly met about three months ago at the Festival of Faith and Writing. We decided to come together because we’re all at similar places in our careers, like-minded in ideology and vision for our poetry, and we’re all outrageouslyContinue reading “Building Community”
Festival of Faith and Writing, Writing Process, and Writing Writing. Writing.
This week I am heading north to the big mitten for the Calvin College Festival of Faith and Writing. I am looking forward to giving a presentation on “Poetry as Worship, Poetry in Worship: Inviting Creativity into the Worship Experience” – and with a title like that, who could skip it, right? I’m also moderatingContinue reading “Festival of Faith and Writing, Writing Process, and Writing Writing. Writing.”
Sarah Marie Wells 