Class on Wednesday

Reading 2 Assignment: Finish Chapter Four on "Aging." This includes the article, "Lost Keys," by Paul Milenski. Below is a profile I found on Milenski.

Oral Skills Assignment: We will begin working on our StorySLAM activity. Try to think back on a formative experience that might be appropriate for a ten-minute autobiographical performance. Below is a sample from The Moth, a New York City story-telling club. There is some inappropriate language, so I apologize. Please avoid it if you are sensitive to that sort of thing.

Author's Bio

I helped incorporate the Berkshire Writers Room (Massachusetts) in the mid-80's, and it's still going strong. Although I write just about anything, including commentary, court investigative reports, and novels, I have a special fondness for those wee little fictions: the short-shorts, the best of which can be as powerful as good poetry.

Publications and Prizes

Anthologies:

Looking for America (Systime, Denmark, 2002), Sudden Fiction International(W.W. Norton & Company, 1989)

Journals:

Berkshire Review, Great River Review, Quarterly West, Wind Literary Journal, Witness,World of English

Prizes:

AWP Short-Short Competition, Four Consecutive PEN Syndicated Prizes, Bobst and Capricorn Runner-Ups, others.

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Winesburg, Ohio by Anderson,Justine by Durrell, Wuthering Heights by E. Bronte, Best of/Short Story Collections by Many

Favorite Books:

I subscribe to about thirty literary periodicals and read contemporary fiction and non-fiction books, but I end each day reading selections from one or more of the classics noted above.

Favorite Authors:

All who grind it out. My best to the youngsters out there who write from the heart.