Essays on Writing and the Creative Process

“Beginnings

“Drawing the Map, Writing the Journey” in Where Art and Faith Converge

Interviews with authors

This page might include:

Gary Lawless (Puckerbrush Review)

Miriam Colwell (Puckerbrush Review)

Mary Victoria

Essays on authors

This page (or Category) might include:

The Path of Beauty: The Art of Amat’ul-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum”

“The Art of Ecstasy in the Poetry of Stanley Kunitz”

“How One Jewish Women Re(made) the Wor(l)d: The Poetry of Alicia Ostriker”

“Remembering Dorothy Livesay” (Puckerbrush Review)

“Working in the Dark in a Worldly Way Discovering the Word: The Art of Constance Hunting” (Puckerbrush Review)

“Of Children and Chowder: Meeting Margaret Avison” (Puckerbrush Review)

Travel Writing in “new work”

Filed in “New Work” category.

Sweden “The Country of Winter” – my first published article in early 1980s, in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, about Karen Blixen and Dorothy Livesay

China – quite a bit of journalism related to China

  • Two articles on women
  • One on celebrating Confucius’ Birthday in His Home Town
  • One of my trip to Anhui in 1986, as a member of the first Canadian women’s delegation to visit the province since the founding of the PRC in 1949

India  “India, the Country of the Heart” in Indian Times

Poetry

This is a poetry “page” in the New Work “category.” It might include:

New Poems

Selections from The Art of Nesting 

Personal essays / memoir

I put this in the New Work category, for now.

“In the Noble, Sacred Place: One Rainy Day in a Holy City”