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Monthly Archives: April 2003

Revising the Poem “A Different Christmas”

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on April 17, 2003 by Karen RippsteinOctober 29, 2011

When Karen Rippstein wrote to me that she wanted my help in shaping a poem from a prose piece she had written about a specific Christmas with her daughter, I was intrigued. Most of the people I’ve worked with bring poems or essays and want to stick with the genre while revising.  But after writing … Continue reading →

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An Email Chat with Sebastian Matthews, Founding Editor of Rivendell

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on April 10, 2003 by Sheila BenderOctober 4, 2011

As I prepare the following interview with Sebastian Matthews, I’m thinking of an encounter I had at a workshop I co-taught for teachers early this spring at the headquarters of the Los Angeles Unified School District.  An administrator for the Peer Assistance program smiled broadly after hugging one of the attending teachers hello. She turned … Continue reading →

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Finding Your Writing’s Occasion

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on April 3, 2003 by Sheila BenderOctober 4, 2011

Poet Stanley Plumly, a teacher of mine, used to say that poems must weigh more at the end than at the beginning. What matters to us has emotional weight, and as with poetry, the personal essay supplies a vehicle for writers to find out what matters and to feel the weight of what matters. As … Continue reading →

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