What I Read When I Panic About the Beginning of School and the End of Sabbatical
1. This excellent rumination on Roald Dahl by someone on the Silkworms Ink crew. 2. This article from Beyond The Margins by Jessica Francis Kane about writing while raising children. 3. This poem by Jane Kenyon. And since I'm on a Kenyon kick, this , too. WRITING UPDATE: I'm nearly finished with the first section of the last chapter (Chapter X.i.) of the fairy tale. I spent all day at the library yesterday and managed to tweak two stanzas and write another two. I believe there will be one more before the section's complete. So I'll not have, most likely, the poem finished before the beginning of school. But I'll finish it soon. It's going to take precedence over teaching during the first week, and luckily that's okay, because the first week of school is a pretty easy week. (The second week, especially if I'm preoccupied with the poem, will be the scary week.) Yesterday I received markups from The Southern Review of my poems. Yay! That wond...