"Congratulations," a colleague told me yesterday. "For what?" He smiled and pointed at the cloudless blue sky through the window behind him. "For surviving the winter." His statement implied two things: that it was no longer winter, and that I had survived. I do not consider myself a person of weak constitution, but I have …
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MFA Nugget: What I Learned at My Fourth Residency
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA -- So I'm back home from my MFA in Writing residency with the Vermont College of Fine Arts. My car is covered in that opaque sludge that comes from splashbacks of snow and road salt, but I'm going to leave it that way for a few days as a reminder of where I've …
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The Artist's Road 