Word After Word

Writing the Australian Crawl by William Stafford
The Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens
The Uncertain Certainty by Charles Simic
Telling Time by Nancy Willard
Grammars of Creation by George Steiner
Conversations before the End of Time by Suzi Gablik
The Gift by Lewis Hyde
The Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport
Living by Fiction by Annie Dillard
Don’t Ask by Philip Levine
No More Second Hand Art by Peter London
The Demon and the Angel by Edward Hirsch
The Healing Art by Rafael Campo
Poetry as Survival by Gregory Orr
Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore
Most anything by Parker Palmer

My dear colleague Jack Ridl is retiring. It’s a huge loss to our creative writing program, our students. This is one of his lists–a list of books creative writing students will love. A list of books that feed us, help us survive well.  Thank you, Jack. I’m missing you a lot.