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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 8, 20122 min read
I Love My Job: Everyday Magic, Day 547
Some of us are task-oriented, and some of us, not to mention the way much of our economy is structured, is time-oriented: having a job...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 26, 20122 min read
1,731 Miles, 11 Gigs, 97 Tornadoes, One Good Weather Radio & One Bad Sinus Infection: Poetry Month
What happened? I’m not sure, but counting from March 24th (when poetry month started for me) and paraphrasing Woody Guthrie, I’ve been...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 10, 20122 min read
Where I’ve Been: Cheating On You With Another Blog: Everyday Magic, Day 533
Please forgive me. I’ve been writing on another blog behind your back this week, but truly, this blog means nothing to me compared to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 29, 20123 min read
How Adrienne Rich Taught Me To Be a Poet: Everyday Magic, Day 527
I started writing poetry years beforehand when I was about 14, running with the usual suspects — T.S. Eliot and e.e. cummings (who were...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 22, 20122 min read
Final, Final, Final Edits On a Book I’ve Been Writing for 16 Years: Everyday Magic, Day 523
The lure and pressure of the final, final, final edits run in overdrive for me because of how many years I’ve been writing this novel. I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 10, 20122 min read
Hunting for Blurbs: Everyday Magic, Day 479
“Will you blurb my book?” Any writer will recognize the charge of those necessary words as we approach the famous and more-famous to ask...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 28, 20112 min read
What I Wanted to Be When I Grew Up: Everyday Magic, Day 468
I wanted to be the lead singer in a rock’n’roll band called the Rootin’ Shootin’ Tootets. I would also play tambourine, and I had already...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 22, 20112 min read
Sending the Book to the Publisher for Design: Everyday Magic, Day 446
I just hit the “send” button on the email to my publisher, releasing into the wilds between my novel after 16 years of writing and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 21, 20114 min read
How Many Poets Does It Take To Go to the End of the World, Begin Again, and Spring Poetry on Strange
Evidently, it takes 8 poets, which is what we had for our Southwest Kansas Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems caravan, which took us across...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 28, 20112 min read
Finishing Begin Again: Everyday Magic, Day 432
Yesterday, the books came, marking the end of months of editing, proofreading, checking the proof, talking with designers and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 21, 20112 min read
Letting Go Of My (Divorce) Girl: Everyday Magic, Day 372
Me a few years before I began writing this book in my head Today I finished my final revision on my novel, The Divorce Girl, which is...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 31, 20112 min read
The Novel is FINALLY Being Published!: Everyday Magic, Day 196
How many years have I been writing The Divorce Girl? On paper since Forest was a creeping critter (now he’s a giant), and in my head for...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 7, 20084 min read
Failing
It happened again.Yesterday, the long-awaited email arrived from the agent reading my revised (as per her suggestions) novel. In short,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 4, 20076 min read
Abiding Grace: A Tribute to Grace Paley
Note: Grace Paley, one of the most amazing writers and activists of our time, died in late August. I wrote this after experiencing her...
