Oct 11, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
[American Journal] Robert Hayden, 1913 – 1980 here among them the americans this baffling multi people extremes and variegations their noise restlessness their almost...
Sep 2, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
(used as the epigraph in my novel The Eagle Tree) The Trees Philip Larkin The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they...
Aug 6, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes
“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety....
Jul 22, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes
A gentleman named Ben Franklin launched an all-you-can-read service called the American library system. It costs the general public and consumers at present absolutely nothing every month and gives unlimited access to millions of titles. One single library in this...
Jun 15, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that...
Jun 9, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes
I read something today that really surprised me. The brilliant Kris Rusch wrote that some writers cannot write on planes. This surprised me, because I’ve never been one of those writers who just writes in a certain location or a certain environment. Sure,...
