3:30 on a Monday afternoon and I’m finally back at home and catching up on the internet. Busy day today where I taught my regular class at 9am on “Rhetorical Situations” then I tried to shape the same lesson for the 10am and noon classes for which I was filling in/subbing. I think it went okay.
Those of you who are following along here is the essay that was assigned this week.
- Saying ‘I Do’ en bleu
- This was not assigned in class but I recently finished Kay Ryan’s poetry collection The Best of It. I really like Ryan’s newer work but I find her older work filled with a little too much rhyme for me but this is a very interesting collection. I think of Kay Ryan as a modern day Emily Dickinson who used to be our national poet laureate. Here are the opening lines to her poem “The Edges of Time”: It is at the edges / that time thins. / Time which had been dense and viscous / “
- One of our fellow blog readers told me about this online reading program where you can mentor elementary school kids via web. Sounds like a neat project. Do I have the time to participate?
- I was very pleased to be the featured poet in the current issue of Untitled Country Review. The link contains an interview between myself and editor Scot Siegel as well as selected poems from Paper House.
- There are two writer events in the Charlotte area this week (that I know of). One is a reading at Gianni’s Italian Restaurant in Concord, NC. 7:30 by authors who have appeared and who have worked with the prose journal Moonshine Review. The other is the Green Rice Art Gallery Open Mike at 7pm on Friday.
Still lots of work to do this week, in the class room and in my own writing and housewife like life. Although can I even classify as a housewife now? Interesting.
I should have an author interview up for you tomorrow and then possibly a final look back at publishing/submitting work from 2009 with some numbers a few of you dear readers as me about. Sound confusing and mysterious? Well, my brain is a bit fuddled at this point 
Have a great week!
Housewife is a state of mind!
Congrats on being a featured poet in the Review btw
Thanks E! U want to cone talk to my students about non fiction writing
You have had a long day! phew! Read the essay . . .are your students starting with writing essays then? And checked our the penpal for students. That looks really good and like something I might be able to do! Thanks for sharing that! and your interview and poems at UCR . . .so good! Those were hard questions! yikes! ha! But, not for you! (getting to read some things from Scot and he’s soooo good!) Take care, rest up and recharge if possible!
Not sure if everyone realized but my class is called Expository Writing so it is an essay/paper writing class. I’m working in some poetry for discussion but it’s all non-fiction all the time. Well mostly
Scot did give me a tough interview but I really enjoyed it! He made me think about things that never occurred to me before. That is always the best way to have an interview
You have amazing stamina with all you do, and … congrats on the ‘featured poet’ interview!
the stamina truly ran out yesterday at about 1 when I ended the second class I was subbing for. Looking forward to my night class tonight but nice to have the break this morning to catch up on writing endeavors
That was a great interview in Untitled Country Review.
As to “housewife,” I hate that word. I much prefer “homemaker.”
I’ve been trying to think of a better word than housewife but even homemaker isn’t one I’m a fan of. We need to make a new word!
Jessie, if those crazy women on Bravo’s “Real Housewives of… ” series classify, then you can wear the crown as well. Also, youtube the song “Housewife” by Jay Brannan. And think of me.
Ah Bryan you just know how to make my evening!