Writers Recommend

Ed Skoog

spettypiece — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:07:41 -0400

"‘Go see some live local music'" is the hourly recommendation from New Orleans radio station WWOZ, and it's good advice, not only true to New Orleans

Michelle Wildgen

spettypiece — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:37:20 -0500

"After years of thinking setting didn't inspire me at all, I have come to realize that it does—but only after I'm gone.

Orlando White

spettypiece — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:27:37 -0500

"For some poetic guidance I always find myself going back to books like the Orphan Factory and Selected Early Poems by Charles Simic; also, Reasons for Moving and The Weather of Words by Mark Strand.

Catie Rosemurgy

spettypiece — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:28:34 -0500

"When I first moved to Philadelphia, a friend of mine was very excited to show me Marcel Duchamp's assemblage Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau, 2° le gaz d'éclairage... in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

January Gill O'Neil

spettypiece — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:25:26 -0500

"Like most writers—specifically parents who are writers—I don't have a lot of time to find inspiration.

Joanie Mackowski

spettypiece — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:55:46 -0500

"It helps me to remember that inspiration needs courting; it won't come if I wait passively.

Elizabeth Bradfield

spettypiece — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:40:30 -0500

"There is phenomenal beauty in the language developed for a particular field—whether it's architecture, dentistry, tree pruning, or accounting.

Michael Cirelli

spettypiece — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:38:33 -0500

"I'm thoroughly inspired, moved, agitated, elevated by music (mostly hip-hop).

Floyd Skloot

spettypiece — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:57:15 -0500

"Notes—on Post-its, index cards, scraps of paper—have saved me as a writer.

Jill Magi

spettypiece — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:14:14 -0500

"Make a tiny book! At least once a year I write something quickly, in one day—a list poem or found-text piece—arrange it in sections, print, cut, stack the pages, staple, and make a handful of copies.