Anne Pici
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Anne Pici commented on A Poem For Mother's Day on January 9, 2008, 11:40 AM
Ah, but the mother/child strands of give- and-take are evened out quite a bit when a son writes a poem about amusing truths.
Anne Pici commented on Dana Gioia reads Unsaid on January 9, 2008, 11:29 AM
Yes, silences are loud with consequence.
Thirty years of teaching first-year composition at a university, plus stints at a superb local bookstore and library, equal an abiding respect for the printed word.
Anne Pici commented on Great Authors on February 18, 2008, 12:35 PM
Perhaps the time crunch's effect of some readers' going less often to the more demanding, reflective literature could be partially alleviated by short stories. Shorter reading time allows for a bit more contemplation? Of course, publishers would have to buy in to the marketing of short story collections and short story cycles, and the quality of the short stories must live up to the depth of those written by Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, Ernest .Hemingway, Alice Munro, Carol Shields, et. al