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Tag Archives: Carol Keeley
Roundup: Conversations and Collaborations Among Writers
As we launch a new blog format for the new year, we’re also looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. Our roundups explore the archives and gather past posts around a certain theme to help … Continue reading
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Tagged Alicia Jo Rabins, Carol Keeley, Catherine Carter, interview, Karolin Felix, Michael Klein, Ovid, Pulitzer Prize, Roundup, roundups, Tracy K. Smith, walker percy
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Roundup: Craft
As we look forward to updating the Ploughshares blog for the new year, we’re also looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. Our roundups explore the archives and gather past posts around a certain … Continue reading
Roundup: On Reading
As we look forward to updating the Ploughshares blog for the new year, we’re also looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. Our roundups explore the archives and gather past posts around a certain … Continue reading
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Tagged Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Bridget Lowe, Carol Keeley, Eric Weinstein, Megan Mayhew Bergman
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Roundup: Writing advice, tips, and lists
As we look forward to updating the Ploughshares blog for the new year, we’re also looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. Our roundups explore the archives and gather past posts around a certain … Continue reading
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Tagged Carol Keeley, Eric Weinstein, Jamie Quatro, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Thomas Lee
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Weekly Roundup: Revision
As we look forward to updating the Ploughshares blog for the new year, we’re also looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. Our weekly roundups explore the archives and gather past posts around a … Continue reading
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Tagged Carol Keeley, Christine Sneed, Eric Weinstein, Jamie Quatro, Revision, Thomas Lee, Werner Herzog
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Weekly Roundup: Inspiration
As we look forward to updating the Ploughshares blog for the new year, we’re also looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. This week we’re introducing a new roundup post that explores the archives. … Continue reading
Not Night Enough
Guest post by Carol Keeley I wrecked my neck last July–three blown discs, bone spurs, stenosis, a semi-choked spinal cord. For the next eight months, I was unable to write. On a good day, I could type for about ten … Continue reading
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Tagged Carol Keeley, Guest Bloggers, Richard Powers, Roger Ebert, Saul Bellow
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Traveling on Foot: Werner Herzog
Guest post by Carol Keeley I first saw Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe at the Music Box, a Chicago theater with faux stars overhead and a live organist between features. While Herzog stuffs garlic and herb bundles into the toe … Continue reading
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Tagged Carol Keeley, Guest Bloggers, Herzog on Herzog, Walking in Ice, Werner Herzog
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The Greensboro Five
Guest post by Carol Keeley Among the iconic civil rights heroes in a recent Platon portfolio in The New Yorker were the Greensboro Four. The image of these young men at a whites-only counter in Woolworth’s ignited a movement and … Continue reading
The Culture of Fire
Welcome to another fiction writer, Carol Keeley, who will post every Friday. As always, thanks for reading, and we welcome any and all comments these guest blogs provoke. Guest post by Carol Keeley Young women of a certain temperament tend … Continue reading
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Tagged Ash Wednesday, Carol Keeley, Frida Kahlo, Guest Bloggers, Thomas Lynch
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