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Stories, journal entries, museum exhibit labels, poems, books. |
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I have covered many pages over the years, from the embarrassing stories I wrote as a child to the multi-document grant requests I have submitted as part of my job. I have produced elegant turns of phrase as well as some real howlers. | |
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While working for The Schubert Club, I edited a history of the organization for its 125th anniversary (in 2007) and contributed many short (and, I like to think, amusing) vignettes for the book. I also wrote a biography of a woman who moved to Minnesota after years of performing as a classical pianist in Iraq. | |
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Poetry |
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My mother used to put little two-line poems in my lunch box in elementary school, so I come by my doggerel-writing honestly. Not for me the pre-printed poems inside greeting cards.
When I have written more serious poetry--or at least used more serious forms like the sonnet, I tend toward Dorothy Parker's wry twists rather than Edna St. Vincent Millay's earnestness. Writing sonnets, with their rules for meter and rhyme within a tidy 14-line limit, is a form of mental exercise as well as a way to let off emotional steam.
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