by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 24, 2015 | about the current writer, essays, How We Spend Our Days, memoir, poetry, stories |
I have been looking into schedules. Even when we read physics, we inquire of each least particle, What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 23, 2015 | 1 true thing, provincetown |
My preference is an aisle seat (I get claustrophobic) except for the bulkhead (of course I like to keep my stuff under the seat in front of me). But yesterday on the flight from Atlanta to Boston, I got upgraded to first class–a window seat. I was reading, but...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 22, 2015 | 1 true thing |
100 daily posts. As I saw this milestone approaching, I have to admit I thought, well 100–that would be a nice place to stop. And I don’t know if any of you noticed, but when I published yesterday’s post, it went out as “poetry: 99/100.”...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 21, 2015 | 1 true thing, poetry |
Right off the bat, I should come clean with the fact that I love the slim volumes–there’s something so elegant about them. I read different poets for different reasons. I love Carl Phillips and Mary Oliver, to speak of two extremes. Rather than fiction or...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 20, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I’ve written three novels about marriage. Whether or not to get into it. Whether or not to get out of it. Being in it for a long time. And now, I’ve almost finished novel #4–about whether or not marriage can work when two people who love each other...
