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The Place Where I Write: Ross Gay
I spent about three years thinking about my perfect writing studio, designing it in my head, sketching little mock-ups from time to time. I pored over books like Shelter and Christopher Continue reading
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I spent about three years thinking about my perfect writing studio, designing it in my head, sketching little mock-ups from time to time. I pored over books like Shelter and Christopher Continue reading
I am a firm believer in not writing. For many, much thinking and planning goes into the time carved away for writing, the things pushed away for the time carved away Continue reading
In the past, I took Virginia Woolf’s advice about having a room of my own to heart. Wherever I was living, I spent time and energy setting up an office, a Continue reading
For me, it’s not place so much as space. When I’m starting new work—a poem or essay—I like to move directly from the dream-space of sleep into the one-eye-shut space of Continue reading
I like to write, or at least draft my poems, in the open air—not all of them, but as many as I can. Like plein-air painters, it helps me to have Continue reading