Solace in a Book

News from contributors: Levine, Boyle, Bass, Meno, Somlo, Kirk, Bottiglieri, Beals

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Solace in So Many Words contributors have been busy.  Here’s a look at what they have been up to. Philip Levine has a poem “The Future” in the January 6 issue of The New Yorker, which begins this way, “The past is no more past / than the future,” and ends “but the day kept going / on and on into the future.” T. C. Boyle who released his tenth book of short stories (T. C. Boyle Stories II) in 2013 is working on a novel The Harder They Come. I'm about a half-year late … [Read more...]

Merry Merry, Merry Merry

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  Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Holly Jolly Thanks to you for reading.  Some days the internet and social media make me feel like Harry Nilsson in that  "Everybody's talking at me."  So thank you for taking the time to pay attention to this site; it is gratifying to think someone (like you) is reading this right now. Thanks to Glenview photographer Kathleen Buckland who regularly shares her photographic work with us. Wishing you health and … [Read more...]

Slice of Solace: Carl Sandburg “At a Window”

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I can image Carl Sandburg looking out the window at the treetops and being inspired to write this poem. It is from the “Fogs and Fires” section of his Chicago Poems.  Like much of Carl Sandburg’s works, this poem is in the public domain. There’s lot of his work available on the Internet; I got this from a site devoted to of all his poems from this book. At the site for the Academy of American Poets, you can find more by Carl Sandburg. And if you’re a Chicagoan, particularly a … [Read more...]

Competition, trees, and contentment

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An article has been buzzing in the social media network; it's from a business publication and says that creative writing is a super competitive field, number two in a list of ten. Poets, Lyricists, and Creative Writers ranked right under Choreographers. Who knew? I had no idea about the competitive level of the dance world. But as far the occupation of creative writing, the finding that it is so competitive is no-duh. I do know that of all the creative writers, it is poets … [Read more...]