Week 8: Reflections as Writer-in-Residence
The magic here is captured in moments like this: A faux spring day in lower northwest Michigan, but still—the sun is shining, layers have been shed, and the students are beside themselves with [...]
The magic here is captured in moments like this: A faux spring day in lower northwest Michigan, but still—the sun is shining, layers have been shed, and the students are beside themselves with [...]
Three days of 40-degree weather and clear skies and the campus is a cacophony of melting snow. Rivulets of snow-drops fall in tiny rows from the roofline of my every building, their pitter-patter [...]
A few orders of business before tonight’s post. First, if you are a Pacific alum or writer enthusiast, you will likely enjoy this post by former Interlochen Writer-in-Residence and NC [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen: John Carr Walker and I are proud to announce the new literary magazine, TRACHODON. Our mission . . . Is to print the best of contemporary lit, art, and nonfiction about [...]
[Warning: Gross picture at the end.] Mr. B, a late-twenties-something petite man with skin taut as a drum over two angular cheekbones, leads the class. He is MMA certified and cross-trains in [...]
“I don’t recognize this two-track,” says Leon Hammerhead, my writing guru and personal snowshoe coach. “Which means I don’t know exactly where we are.” We’re not far from the Boardman River. I [...]
One of my former professors from grad school used to teach at Interlochen and lives in the area. He is probably one of the most intuitive writers I will ever know, one of the most genuine men [...]
Trusting the lake is easy now that I’ve done it with a group of people. A narrow path down to the lakeshore, then one, joyful leap onto the ice. It’s sunny this afternoon in lower northwest [...]
“The hottest thing you’ll see happen out on the ice is one of these flags tipping up,” says the ice fisherman, our guest teacher in Mr. Copeland’s ecology class. He’s holding a “tip up,” a [...]
[I’m putting together the ice fishing pictures, so it will be another day or two before that post. For now, here is a photo of a Hawaiian student tapping a confident toe at the edge of Green [...]