Poetry can help awaken us to the richness of the language that surrounds us, even in the seeming cacophony of the digital age.
Daughter Number Three
“A filing cabinet full of stuff I have stumbled across. But you can’t keep everything.”
Ursula K. Le Guin: On Rules of Writing, or, Riffing on Rechy
“When Rules Are Made to be Broken,” (LATBR, October 6, 2002), John Rechy attacks three “rules of writing” that, as he says, go virtually unchallenged in most fiction workshops and writing classes: Show, don’t tell — Write about what you know — Always have a sympathetic character for the reader to relate to. I read the piece cheering and arguing all the way.
Docear — The Academic Literature Suite
Cross platform software that integrates everything you need to search, organize and create academic literature into a single application
Language Log
A multiauthor linguistics site.