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What, Why, How: Dorene O’Brien

April 8, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What? I have published poetry and essays, but at heart I am a fiction writer. My first story collection, Voices of the Lost and Found, is a group of gritty, unflinching, largely tragic stories told … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: What, Why, How: Inside Writing Tagged With: Detroit, Fiction, poetry, short stories

Blackout Poetry – as creative as you want to get

March 18, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

A mix of writing and visual art All you need to make blackout poetry is imagination and the ability to let your mind take creative leaps with given text. Even my logical, engineer-minded husband … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: Art & Crafting, The Writing Life Tagged With: art, blackout poems, blackout poetry, erasure poems, poetry, writing

What, Why, How: Thaddeus Rutkowski

February 18, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: I write short fiction: short stories and flash fiction. The cut-off between flash fiction and short stories, it seems, is one thousand words, according to literary journals, and my pieces are … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: What, Why, How: Inside Writing Tagged With: asian american, Fiction, flash fiction, memoir, poetry, short stories

What, Why, How: Kathleen McGookey

February 4, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Poet Kathleen McGookey

What:  I’m a writer, and I write poems.  I have always written, ever since I was a little girl and filled notebooks with possible titles for stories that I never wrote.  I have written newspaper … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: What, Why, How: Inside Writing Tagged With: motivation, poetry

What. Why, How: Binnie Klein

December 17, 2018 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: Like many writers, I started as a child with poetry, mostly moody tomes about the shape of loneliness. In my late adolescence and twenties, I got involved with the New York poetry “scene” – … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: What, Why, How: Inside Writing Tagged With: boxing, collaboration, memoir, podcasts, poetry

How to Evaluate Your Poem

November 26, 2018 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Jack's dog Vivi

Is it any good? Acclaimed poet and teacher Jack Ridl says others often ask him, “Is my poem any good?”  He answers "It's likely we all worry about that, or at least worry about embarrassing ourselves … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: The Writing Life Tagged With: humor, poems, poetry, writing

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Writing life, line by line