Outside The Lines,
A literary Column
By Marcia Diane
Year’s End; seriously hard to imagine where it went so fast and now having to invent time travel and write to you all for tomorrow. Your celebrations over I will add one last encouragement to all of us in the New Year 2016…
READ.
Read all the poets, all the prose artist, all the journalist you can get your hands on…best ever antidote to many human ills; from a sluggish mind, to despair to flat out ill informed…read folks and so this list I will lend…as starters.
You can find any of these folks on line…just google them. Their books and articles can be bought in hard copy or electronic from many vendors…
Mary Oliver
Robert Frost
Gail Collins
David Brooks
Toi Derricotte
Langston Hughes
Walter Mosley
Martin Cruz Smith
Maya Angelou
Kay Ryan
John Le Carré
P.D. James
Elizabeth George
Anne Perry
And now some WEB sites to enjoy and aide in all your searches:
The San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com
The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/uk
Atlantic Monthly http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/
New York Times http://www.nytimes.com
Poets.org http://www.poets.org/index.php
Button Poetry http://buttonpoetry.com/
And in closing I invite you to drive yourself crazy on Youtube as I do…so many poets and authors reading their work…
Happy New Year all…and remember we still want to seeyour creative output. Contact us at m.diane.writeon@gmail.com for our monthly on-line writer’s forum.
Dear Ms. Diane,
I enjoy your column very much.
Are you still accepting poems from “guest contributors”?
Sincerely,
Daniel A. Howard
Concord, CA
Yes, you can email her at: m.diane.writeon@gmail.com