I'm taking The Memory Sessions on the road! First stop: HippoCamp 2019, in Lancaster, PA. I've wanted to attend HippoCamp since its inaugural conference. This year's the year! On Friday, August 23, at 6pm, I'll be reading and answering questions along with five other debut authors: James Chesbro, Tyrese Coleman, Anika Fajardo, Randon Billings Noble,…
Happy Publication Day, The Memory Sessions. I wrote my first bit of memoir without memory 13 years ago. I did not fathom at the time how a 1200-word essay for grad school would grow. Over the coming months, I’ll be speaking and writing about the process from first piece to publication. For now, today, I…
I routinely observe my sons to catch their point of view, the way I always did with my young students. It's a device, however unreliable, that has long helped me tune in to childhood, even if I can't remember it. Yesterday, we drove to western Massachusetts for a pool party at my uncle's house. My…
Jelly Bucket arrived today, bearing work by writers I have long admired and writers I have just met. My third essay exploring genetic microdeletions, titled "The Tiniest Boom," is included. Little by little, I hope to share views of this little-known world.
Typehouse is a lovely journal, its editors willing to offer substantial feedback. In Issue 17's table of contents, I keep company not with the creative nonfiction writers, but the poets. I'll still visit everyone in the issue, but this publication is different and gratifying. Both these poems—like my first two published poems, like much of…
