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On the other side of the river / there is a flame / a flame / burning May burning August . . . .
a poet looks to her / a farmer looks to her / a Dialectical Materialist looks to her / she is on the other side of the river, burning….
“The Other Side of the River” by Xi Chaun
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~ Virginia Woolf
For this edition of the Remington Roundup, there are no priests (sorry), but there’s definitely poetry and places to hang with your writing and revising friends.
Hey Word Warriors, last call for anyone wanting to participate in the upcoming Study Hall: #AmWriting this Sunday, April 8th, 3-5pm (CST). You can join online via Zoom or show up in person at the Studio in West Allis. We’ll read from work by a few favorite authors and write on four different prompts.
Read more about the meet-up HERE, and register by Saturday the 7th!
If you’re like me, you have several rough pieces in notebooks, stashed on your hard drive, previously printed and paper clipped for future edits. If you’re me, some of those pieces have been sitting in the queue for way too long. Revisions can be daunting.
There are plenty of books to turn to and articles to consider when diving back into a draft, but here’s one you might bookmark: “Re-envision Revision with Sandra Scofield” where novelist Sarah McCoy interviews Schofield on Writer Unboxed.
“You have to take a big step back and get perspective. What is this I’m telling? What’s it about? And then describe what you have produced. . . . I really do mean you should describe the manuscript, in detail. Know it. Then you can start evaluating it.” ~ Sandra Scofield
She’s also teaching at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival this July. Anyone up for a road trip?
#Poetry
April is National Poetry Month, and there are so many ways to celebrate:
“I then recognized…some true and awful thing about being a poet and a poet’s relationship, not to words or the beauties and meanings words offer, but to the blank space those words are written on, to the page: that one must learn to trust that its thin, near nothingness can bear the burden of a life.” ~ Dan Beachy-Quick on Poets & Writers
I’m a list maker.
Notebooks full. To-Do’s for writing, for work, for home. Finish reading this, fill out the form for that, clean and prep and buy a basket of candy. I break my list into columns, underline and circle and mark specific notes with a triple shot of exclamation points–!!! (For crying out loud, DO NOT FORGET THE CANDY). On occasion (on necessity), I fold the list so that the right edge meets the left edge just shy of the spirals–a crisp fold, a new space. For a sub-list, perhaps. A core list. A circumventing list. A list addressed with my favorite pen, lately a Paper Mate gel–brown, not black. Not even red. Because this list is different. This list is serious. This list, is art.