In June of 2017 I was attending a writers workshop in Aspen, CO. One night we all gathered in a fancy bar for a reading and panel discussion with some of the writers teaching that week. Even to remember being in a bar with people so close, without masks on, has become a strange companion to memories from the before times. But what sticks out to me from that night is that once the conversation turned to the election, once writers began talking about the political climate and what could we do and on and on, one of the poets -
October 2020: The Privilege of Surprise
October 2020: The Privilege of Surprise
October 2020: The Privilege of Surprise
In June of 2017 I was attending a writers workshop in Aspen, CO. One night we all gathered in a fancy bar for a reading and panel discussion with some of the writers teaching that week. Even to remember being in a bar with people so close, without masks on, has become a strange companion to memories from the before times. But what sticks out to me from that night is that once the conversation turned to the election, once writers began talking about the political climate and what could we do and on and on, one of the poets -