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Creating an Authentic Emotional Experience: Sentiment vs. Sentimentality
I reside in Hawaii but am currently writing this from my childhood bedroom in upstate New York. It’s always a bit of a trip to be back in the small town and home that raised me. I haven’t lived in this room in nearly twenty-seven years, but I return to visit once or more each…
Introducing Amanda Oliver
About Amanda Oliver Amanda Oliver is the author of the nonfiction book Overdue: Reckoning With the Public Library (Chicago Review Press), named a Best Book of 2022 by Esquire. Her essays have appeared in Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Times, the Rumpus, PANK, and Medium, among many others. She was the nonfiction editor of Joyland…
Writing, Serious Illness, and the Power of Witnessing
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the 2009-2013 Poet Laureate of Kansas, a long-time transformative language artist, and the author or editor of 24 books, including poetry, memoir, fiction, non-fiction, and anthologies. As a poet, fiction and non-fiction writer, teacher, mentor, and facilitator, she explores and celebrates how the spoken, written and sung word can help us live…