Writing Stories
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Writing Stories
The Dignity of Small Things — Libby Maxey tells the story of Indwelling
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Brianna Avenia-Tapper
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Season 4
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Episode 60
Libby Maxey talks about:
- using sonnets to put the pandemic in a box
- writing 'off of' other writers
- the ancient tradition of starting a book with an author's address to the book
- poetry land vs. fiction land, and how time doesn't matter
- editing other poets' poems
- giving dignity to small things
- being 'bad' at 'pub days'