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  • The Rush

    March 6, 2014
    This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!

      Week 8 of an 11 week quarter. Harried students, all over the place writing, missed deadlines, budget deadlines… Me: “We have to end our session now, we’ve actually gone over time….” Student: “I have one more question about my lit review…grammar…APA….” Me: “We really have to stop now, I have another student waiting…..” Student:…

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  • Hooves on the Rooves?

    December 25, 2013
    This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!

    I know that roof is misspelled, but I’m taking creative license with that one, just to kid around. No snow here and the music is great on my favorite jazz station. Clancy is tracking Santa’s route, which is way cute! Perhaps there’s a poem or two coming on….my Christmas present!

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  • Happy Winter Holiday Slow-down | Joyce Young | Blog Post | Red Room

    December 25, 2013
    This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!

    Happy Winter Holiday Slow-down | Joyce Young | Blog Post | Red Room.  

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  • Emily Dickinson at a Writing Workshop

    September 7, 2013
    This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!

    This is priceless. The blog of Writers Write, a program offering writing courses in South Africa, has posted a draft of one of Emily Dickinson’s poems with feedback from her (fictional) instructor. Here is the link: http://writerswrite.co.za/what-if-emily-dickinson-attended-a-writing-workshopProgram I wonder whether Emily would have returned to the workshop, kept on with her writing and continued to…

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  • Confessions #2

    September 7, 2013
    This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!

    Originally posted on 5 Writers 5 Novels 5 Months: Joe’s Post # 51 After the post about writing sex scenes, I realized that I may have another problem. A bigger one. (Stop giggling!) Maybe the challenge with writing sizzling sex scenes is connecting to the actual EMOTION of the scene.  Oh, boy. Emotions… that’s ah,…

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  • Been Away, Been Here, Been There

    September 5, 2013
    This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!

    I admit that I’ve been away from this Blog. However, I have not been out of the country, away at my country home (don’t have one), or unavailable. No. It is the end of the summer quarter, and my head has been filled with other people’s writing and writing problems. Not a bad thing, but…

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  • Poetry for Peace – August 6, 2013

    July 23, 2013
    This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!

    Pandemonium Press is Sponsoring a reading at Casa Latina on August 6th to support peace on the 68th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima – Nagasaki. Here’s a link to the flyer: Hiroshima-Nagasaki2013   Please come out and support us!

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  • How Meditation Can Help Your Writing Career

    July 13, 2013
    This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!

    Great post on meditation and how it can influence the writer and her/his writing from Lauren Sapala’s writecity blog….  

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  • Make them suffer

    July 12, 2013
    This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!

      I love this post by Joe Cummings on 5 Writers 5 Novels 5 Months about creating obstacles for your characters.   Make them suffer.   And I can’t wait to read the next post by one of these writers. They get right to the point and they do it with clear, precise and humor-filled…

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  • (Possibly) Spontaneous Public Art

    July 5, 2013
    This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!

    I love the surprise of finding public art at the marina. I never know when an artist will take stones from the perimeter of the bay and create something new and interesting. Here is one example.

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Joyce E. Young

Writer and Teacher

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