Today I read the poem "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden (yeah we share a surname, but no relation. I wish!) and it made me think of...

This past Sunday, there was a cool ​seminar​ from Corporeal Writing called "Unlikeable on Purpose." I knew I wanted to ​sign up​ based on...

"Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?" -Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.” ― Kurt Vonnegut The act of writing is not always like...

I was skimming my list of quotes that I like and these happened to be on the same page though Wharton was near the top, Waheed the very...

I knew of Sam Shepard as an actor. It was only recently that I learned that he was also a talented writer in his own right. I was...

I've asked myself this question several times, and in the past few months I've been asked this on a couple of occasions. in the past...