Blog entries

"Touched" Published in Soundzine

Erin Wilcox — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:45:25 +0100

A collaborative project based on my poem "Touched," about my first and only meeting with my maternal grandfather, has been published in Soundzine! This poem tells how I entered the world just as my Irish grandfather was dying of cancer. We were in the same hospital, and the nurse brought me down to meet him as soon as I was born. He went into a coma that night and passed on three days later.

The poem was first displayed on a broadside next to the tile mosaic...

What D'Ya Know...I found a way to get the 'blog' started!

Lance Morris — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:27:33 +0100

Good start. Got a Photo uploaded- using a PC computer and IE browser

More next time.

Support Me and Clarion West in This Year's Write-a-thon!

Erin Wilcox — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:35:25 +0100

I am excited to be participating in the Clarion West Write-a-thon!

Clarion West is a speculative fiction workshop held annually in Seattle. Since 1971, Clarion West has offered support and education to writers of science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, and slipstream literature. The Write-a-thon is a way for writers to participate remotely while also raising money for the work...

Erin Wilcox Reads Fiction to Tucson's Mayor and City Council

Erin Wilcox — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:31:35 +0100

On June 7, I had the honor of being a guest reader for Shannon Cain's performance art project, Tucson, The Novel: An Experiment in Literature and Civil Discourse. Ms. Cain, whose prize-winning short story collection is forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press, is serializing her novel-in-progress in three-minute segments during Tucson City Council meetings' public comment periods. It was a very interesting experience to participate in this project. I will soon provide a full commentary...

Video of Me Reading at Stoneboat Release in Wisconsin

Erin Wilcox — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:04:10 +0100

I had a great time visiting Wisconsin to participate in the Stoneboat reading in late April. The release party was held at Paradigm Coffee & Music, a funky cafe in downtown Sheboygan. I arrived shortly after a cold snap that culminated in a thundersnow. (That's thunder, lightning, and snow, all at once. Good times.) I missed all that, though, and enjoyed a convivial evening in the company of fellow artists, with only a slight chill in th...

"Humberto, I Just Saw the News" Featured in Stoneboat

Erin Wilcox — Thu, 05 May 2011 22:40:31 +0100

My prose poem “Humberto, I Just Saw the News” is featured alongside many fantastic poems, short prose pieces, and visual artworks in the spring issue of Stoneboat, a Wisconsin-based literary journal. I had the opportunity to read in Sheboygan to help celebrate the new issue, which I will share more about soon. For now, here is the text of my poem. If you enjoy it and would like to purchase a copy or a subscription to Stoneboat, please visi...

Writers Studio Tucson Workshops Start January 17, 20

Erin Wilcox — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:23:12 +0100

If you want to get started in creative writing or you're looking for a workshop to support your established writing practice, you might enjoy The Writers Studio's upcoming classes.

Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Schultz founded The Writers Studio in New York more than twenty years ago, and Eleanor Kedney founded the studio's Tucson branch in 2005. Although I have not taken a Writers Studio Class, I attended a local reading the studio hosted about a year ago at which Schultz shared ...

Concerning Inception

Erin Wilcox — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:47:20 +0100

Warning: Contains Spoilers

I've had time now to watch Inception twice and digest the experience. I think it is a great movie, but what makes it great is everything but its fuzzy ending. I will endeavor not to write t...

Living Apart Together

Phillip J Greene — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:28:44 +0100

Separate lives: Living apart together

My wife and I have been married for 54 years. It is not such an unusual accomplishment on the face of it except that for 20 years she worked in locations all over the United States and in many foreign countries for extended periods of time. Her assignments for a banking software company often required her to live in hotels or corporate apartments up t...

The World Then & Now

Phillip J Greene — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:57:49 +0100

The World, Then & Now

Inspired by the AARP’s Calendar Art Competition Titled “Then and Now”.

For those of us who lived through it, the Second World War affected our lives in many ways. Unlike today, with our all-volunteer military, everyone had to make sacrifices and did so willingly. Many who fought in that war were also volunteers, but the draft pulled men and w...

News Item: Jerry Falwell Dead at 73

Phillip J Greene — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:52:17 +0100

A poem by Phillip Greene

Jerry Falwell died

Cause something broke inside

It must have been

That ugly sin

Of tolerance denied.

I'm Baaaaaack!

Phillip J Greene — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:04:25 +0100

Well, I am finally able to get the SWAG blog feature to work on my balky computer. It had something to do with Java script. Anyway it now seems to be working. Prepare yourself for the onslaught. I have been blogging regularly on my book site: http://www.runningonemptybook.com. BP gave me lots of material and it looks like another spill in the Gulf may be developing to provide more cannon fodder. Stay tuned.

Phillip

Review of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Erin Wilcox — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:38:18 +0100

Overall, this was a highly enjoyable book, worthy of the many awards it's won and appealing to a much wider range of readers than the young adult. I particularly enjoyed the opening and use of setting. Gaiman turns the home into a graveyard and the graveyard into a home. Bod's graveyard is rich and varied, complete with not only the expected tombs, but ancient burial tunnels, portals to the underworld, and unhallowed ground. The nooks and crannies of Bod's...

Marmaduke-A Review

Jan Strasser — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:09:13 +0100

I just saw this movie and yes it is a silly dog in a silly movie. The comic strip was that way, too, but it held something. The movie does, too. It is definitely made for children but cut a little deeper.

The story runs in a typical fashion with cute characters doing cute and obnoxious things. The human counterparts are a bit goofy and the story line is clique with the father taking a job and letting it take over his life.

What was different was some new stuff, a story line of a...

"Turnagain" appears in newly released Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska

Erin Wilcox — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:18:17 +0100

I am pleased to announce that Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska, edited by Michael Engelhard (University of Alaska Press) has been released! This anthology contains flash fiction and short nonfiction pieces set in the Land of the Midnight Sun. Among them is my flash fiction story "Turnagain," posted below.

This lovely collection also features black-and-white photographs enhancing the mood cast by the tight, powerful prose. Digital and e-book versions are available. For more in...

A FAREWELL (Meetup assignment-Tell a Story with Symbols

Jan Strasser — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100

She had always been my best friend; at least it felt that way. A real * of a gal, always loyal. Kiki was a year ahead of me in the academy. I had joined as a ~, barely able to mix, let alone train, but I had insisted and there was no where else to go. My planet- yes my planet, had been wiped out, the people at least. We were a young species, just looking up into the blackness, and a marauding band had , , and destroyed what we had and what we were. I had managed to call for help,...

ELLA, THE REAL CINDER IN MY LIFE-Assignment in Meetup REwrite a Fairytale or Myth

Jan Strasser — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100

I thought my life had been all planned out. When I was a young girl, my parents had arranged a good match for me and I was content to let my story unfold. Something went wrong, and after putting so much effort into my marriage, with two difficult children later, my husband died on me!

At first I was shocked. How could he do that, to me! I had put up with all that crap we wives have t...

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT OF A SUPERHERO-Meetup Assignment

Jan Strasser — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Cactisis- A super woman, with a prickly character, created in the Sonoran Desert. She can shoot needles out of her green skin with deadly accuracy; don't ever get in her way. She stands for right but will often feel out of sorts, irritated. You can't break through to her except when she opens her heart on the cooler nights of spring. She shelters life in many forms by protecting them through harsh conditions, superhero attack and dry spells.

FROM THE BOTTOM UP?

Jan Strasser — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100

When I first heard this idea from President Obama I scoffed. Throughout history the people at the top create the jobs and it trickles down to the "regular" folks. I thought it was political pandering to the masses. However, when I put that together with the idea of the "Classroom of the Future" (an idea I scoffed at, too) something clicked. Now, mind you, I have little patience for the cry for a classroom filled with the latest gadgets and all we have to do is provide more and funds magically...

Adam a movie review

Jan Strasser — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100

I just went to see a preview of a movie called "Adam". It was quite good and Adam was an extraordinary person. The story seemed wonderfully complex but had just two story lines; Adam’s struggle through life with Asperger syndrome and the struggles of his girlfriend in her family life. Each was compelling, but Adam’s struggle was more alien like a Spock with one foot in the human world and one in the Vulcan world of no emotion. The story lines played off each other quite well..