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Each success, no matter how small, in practice of what I love is a lightning strike against the dark. And I have been in dark, metaphorically dark and literally extinguished places. I’ve been around fires a blazin’ too and they can be happy places!
Ah ha, yes. Well.
I am a poet/mother/wife living with bipolar disease. [...]
Archive for the ‘Creative Nonfiction’ Category
Nice to meet ya, again.
Posted in Acadiana, Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Body, Books, Cajun, Creative Nonfiction, Creativity, Death, Friendship, Language, Literary Journals, Literature, Louisiana, Love, Memoirs, Moon, Mother, Nature, New Orleans, Photography, Poetry, Poets, Publishing, Self, Self Portraits, Short Fiction, Sunsets, The Writing Life, Theatre, Word List, Writers, tagged Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Body, Cajun, Clare's Publications, Creative Writing, Creativity, Death, Life, Literature, Louisiana, Louisiana Arts, Louisiana Poets, Love, Mental Illness, Mental Wellness, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Poetry Readings, Poets, Publishing, Self, Southern Literature, The Arts, The South, The Writing Life, Women, Women Poets, Women Writers, Women's Issues, Writers, Writing, Writing Life on October 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Poet(ess) Extraordinaire
Posted in Acadiana, Art, Artists, Cajun, Creative Nonfiction, Creativity, Language, Literary Journals, Literature, Louisiana, Poetry, Poets, Prose, Publishing, The Writing Life, Writers, tagged Art, Artists, Cajun, Creative Writing, Creativity, Life, Louisiana, Louisiana Arts, Louisiana Poets, Poetry, Poetry Readings, Poets, Southern Literature, The Arts, The South, The Writing Life, Women, Women Poets, Women Writers, Women's Issues, Writers, Writing, Writing Life on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://lanawiggins.wordpress.com/
The link above directs you to my good friend and wonderful poet Lana Maht Wiggins’ blog.
Lana and I read at Casa Azul last week and are considering some future collaborations poetry-wise! Please check her page out and comment. Tell others who you think might be interested. More info can be found at her page. She is an astonishingly gifted [...]
Modified Response to a Friend’s Comment Elsewhere: A Manifesto?
Posted in Art, Artists, Creative Nonfiction, Creativity, Language, Literature, Louisiana, Poetry, Poets, Prose, Publishing, Self, The Writing Life, Writers, tagged Louisiana Poets, Poetry, Poets, Women Writers, Writers, Writing Life on March 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I want to write because I want to write.
I have something to prove to myself, to the world in a way, yes…but I need to remember that writing is a joyful act and I should not be pained with “having to prove” syndrome. Meaning I shouldn’t write from that headspace, you know?
This is the challenge: [...]
Promises
Posted in Art, Artists, Books, Cajun food, Creative Nonfiction, Creativity, Espresso, Friendship, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricanes, Katrina, Literary Journals, Louisiana, Louisiana Coast, Memoirs, Moon, Mother, Music, Nature, New Orleans, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Prose, Self Portraits, Short Fiction, Sunsets, Theatre, Virtual Heads, Wetland Preservation, tagged Bipolar Disease, Cajun, Clare's Publications, Creative Writing, Creativity, Family, Life, Literature, Love, Mental Illness, Mental Wellness, Publishing, Self, Southern Literature, The South, Wifehood, Writing Life on March 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I promise I will update this blog more often.
Soon…
Read This
Posted in Artists, Creative Nonfiction, Creativity, Friendship, Music, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Prose, Virtual Heads, tagged Bipolar Disease, Creative Writing, Creativity, Life, Mental Illness, Publishing, Self, Writers, Writing, Writing Life on November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On one year of …salted lithium.
Gabriel, you fuel us.
Here’s a pretty song by a pretty Canadian for you, G.
Thanks, Sam for playing it.
I hear the voices of women
Posted in Creative Nonfiction, tagged Creative Writing, Family, Life, Writing Life on December 31, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Noamie is our 87 year-old next-door neighbor. We visited her a little while ago to replace the light bulb in her oven. She is one of my dearest friends. She was my grandparents’ best friend and neighbor. She gave me about ten pounds of fresh shrimp this week, and I can shop in her freezer [...]
The White Crane
Posted in Creative Nonfiction, Literary Journals, Memoirs, Prose, tagged Bipolar Disease, Life, Mental Illness, Publishing, Writing Life on November 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going to link to this art.
I just sent my creative nonfiction piece (about my first hospitalization for a psychotic episode/ bipolar breakdown*) The White Crane to BigUglyReview out of San Francisco. It is a pretty impressive magazine. It has multimedia content. This mag is very cool, indeed. *All names except my own have been changed to [...]
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