Multimedia workshop for women filmmakers

announcements

Calling all female filmmakers!  Just got word of a workshop in Brooklyn, coming up, led by a friend of mine, a Hedgebrook alumna, and a fabulous filmmaker: Cynthia Lowen.  (Cynthia is also an award-winning poet and winner of the 2012 National Poetry Series for her...

The Most Beautiful Sentences in Literature

Thoughts and Musings

This is the “best sentence” that resonates most with me today.  What’s yours?  Click on this link, or the photo, for Jennifer Schaffer’s list on Buzz Feed. Here, not the best sentences, but the first sentences of the books that happen to be on...

This Place Is Magic

Thoughts and Musings

As I put the snow and icicles of Goddard behind me for another semester, I was thinking about the question of whether one can teach writing. I don’t know if we taught it, or whether we simply lived it, all together, for the last eight days. I come home filled by my...