“No one can make a living at poetry,” his grandfather told him. “But I tell you what,” he added shrewdly, “ we’ll give you a year to make a go of it. You’ll have to promise to quit writing if you can’t make a success of it in a year. What do you say”? “Give me twenty,” the nineteen year old replied. And twenty years later, almost to the month, Robert Frost’s first book, A Boy’s Will, was published.
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STOPPING BY THE WOODS – Part 2
Posted in John Lehman, Robert Frost, Stopping by the Woods, books, contests, creative writing, fiction, get published, nonfiction, poetry, publishing, reviews, writing, writing contests, tagged A Boy's Will, Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, Derry New hampshire, New Republic, Pulitzer Prize, University of Michigan on February 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
STOPPING BY THE WOODS – PART 1
Posted in John Lehman, books, contests, creative writing, fiction, get published, nonfiction, poetry, publishing, reviews, writing, writing contests, tagged 1960, Franconia Farm, Galway Kinnell, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, New England farmer, Presidential Inauguration, Robert Frost, Stewart Udall, the Gift Oight, Washington Post on February 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is a behind the scenes look at Robert Frost and his work. If you are curious about poetry at all it will give you some guidelines that will help you make your work more memorable. Or if you just wonder about the man behind the legend, here are some clues. I originally prepared this [...]
THE WRITER’S CAVE – PART 6
Posted in John Lehman, books, contests, creative writing, fiction, get published, nonfiction, poetry, publishing, writing, writing contests, tagged Cat Spa, Dog Person, Dream, Humane Society, Norweigen Elk Hound, Orson Wells, Steve Martin, The Writer's Cave on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
JOHN: QUESTION: Can writers fly?
Despite being able to leap effortlessly from one subject to another, writers are not bats, but if they are on some kind of flying device like a plane or a helicopter, yes writers can fly.
You are what you dream. “You Are What You Dream” is the name of my [...]
THE WRITER’S CAVE – PART 5
Posted in John Lehman, books, contests, creative writing, fiction, get published, nonfiction, poetry, publishing, reviews, writing, writing contests, tagged Ingmar Bergman, Joyce Carol Oates, Lorine Niedecker, publishing on February 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
WRITER AS REDEEMER.
QUESTION: Can a writer be killed if one drives a stake through the writer’s heart or chops off his or her head?
ANSWER: Yes, but that would also kill regular humans if one does the same to them. By the way, killing a writer is murder and murderers are arrested and put in [...]
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