October 16, 2007USA Today/AP highlighted Paul McCartney’s desire to maintain his dignity during his divorce from Heather Mills. The former Beatle told Radio Times Magazine:
“As Winston Churchill once said, ‘If you’re going through hell, keep going!’ . . . The only solution is to remain dignified. If I don’t keep a silence about it, I lose [...]
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June 23, 2005The Houston Chronicle shows us a man who lives in Dallas, works in Houston, handles business trials and writes about a minister having an affair (excerpt):
For the past five years, when James Jordan hasn’t been handling cases as a commercial litigator, he’s been thinking about love and lust.
During the day, Jordan is chairman and CEO [...]
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May 10, 2005AP reports Walt Whitman’s 117 year old advice, recently discovered by The College of New Jersey’s Nicole Kukawski.
Chris Newmarker writes (excerpt):
“First, don’t write poetry; second ditto; third ditto,” Whitman says. “You may be surprised to hear me say so, but there is no particular need of poetic expression. We are utilitarian, and the current cannot [...]
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November 29, 2004The New York Times notes the passing of Nancy Larrick at 93.
Jennifer Bayot writes (excerpt):
Dr. Larrick considered the standard reading workbooks of the 1950’s, with their picture games and stories about Dick and Jane, insulting to even a 5-year-old’s intelligence. An editor of children’s books for Random House, she preferred Dr. Seuss and Little Bear [...]
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November 23, 2004The American Film Institute announced its nominees for the top 100 movie quotes. The 400 excerpts include:
MELVIN UDALL
You make me want to be a better man.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
SUGARPUSS O’SHEA
I love him because he’s the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes [...]
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November 14, 2004The New York Times gets Judy Blume talking about writing.
Jennifer Goldblatt writes (excerpt):
“I didn’t know what I was doing,” Ms. Blume said “I was just free to write spontaneously, from the inside and not worry about what I was writing or anything else. Looking back, I can’t believe that I ever did it or was [...]
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October 7, 2004Lee Robinson gives us her poem “The Rules of Evidence.” Note that this is art, not advice for conducting a real trial. Or is it?
Read the poem and you decide (excerpt):
What you want to say most
is inadmissible.
Say it anyway.
Say it again.
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October 4, 2004The New York Times gives space to D. Nurkse and creative writing workshops for kids in custody. The article links to the poems of 6 teenage inmates at Rikers Island.
D. Nurkse writes (excerpt):
In 1998 I was hired to lead poetry workshops at Island Academy, one of three public schools on Rikers Island. The first [...]
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September 2, 2004Conroy’s departure from the University of Iowa Writes’ Wor
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August 15, 2004passing of Bill Martin Jr.
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February 27, 2004Presently, this segment of the site is under reconstruction. Please be patient with us. Thank you.
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