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Tag Archives: James Arthur
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: Finding Time and Space to Write
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, Eric Weinstein, James Arthur, Michael Klein, Roundup, Thomas Lee
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The Way In
Guest post by James Arthur Between the ages of 18 and 24, I did consider myself to be a writer, though I wouldn’t have known whether to call myself a poet, novelist, screenwriter, literary critic, or playwright, and I wrote … Continue reading
On Walking
Guest post by James Arthur Somehow I never got around to taking my driver’s test. I make various excuses for not having a license (I grew up in a city with a subway, I’m doing my part for the environment, … Continue reading
Travel, Tor House, and Negative Capability
Guest post by James Arthur During the last few years I’ve been lucky enough to have some opportunities to travel, and not surprisingly, the places I’ve visited have begun showing up in my poems. In fact, these days when I … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers
Tagged Guest Bloggers, James Arthur, Robinson Jeffers, travel writing
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Extreme Isolation
Guest post by James Arthur Several years ago, I had a brief, obsessive relationship with Winged Migration, a 98-minute documentary about birds, and I went to see it three times in theaters around Seattle. To my outrage, every time I … Continue reading
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Tagged Guest Bloggers, headphones, James Arthur, Winged Migration
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The Bottom of the Mere
Guest post by James Arthur I’d like to think that although poetic styles change, as they should, the themes of poetry are more durable: that poets will keep writing love poems, for example, as long as romantic love exists, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Beowulf, Don McKay, Guest Bloggers, James Arthur, Les Murray, Waiting for the Barbarians
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The Dead Poets Society
Three for three: James starts today as our final Get Behind the Plough blogger for the Winter 2009-10 issue! What better way to kick back on a Friday afternoon? As always, read. Savor. Leave comments. “The Dead Poets Society” Guest … Continue reading
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Tagged Dead Poets Society, Guest Bloggers, James Arthur, Sailing to Byzantium, Yeats
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