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  • Radio Show | Interview with Poet and Author, DuEwa Frazier

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    Author, poet, and founder/CEO of Lit Noire Publishing,DuEwa Frazier, discusses her writings, Ten Marbles and a Bag to Put Them In, Stardust Tracks on a Road, Shedding Light From My Journeys and her forthcoming collection. DuEwa is also the is the editor of the award nominated anthology Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets…

  • Introspection, Thought and Nascent Creations…

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    Recently I’ve been helping my high school teenager with the story they are writing. Now that school has ended and summer vacation has begun they are spending more time writing on their work. It is wonderful to watch them pour their energy in passion into the project. Doing so revives wistful memories of when I…

  • Loosening Up

    Loosening Up

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    I tried many exercises in the various writing groups in which I participated before entering graduate school, and working towards earning my MFA. None left an impression, or stuck with me. This is not to say the exercises held no merit. Instead my focus lay severely on learning to write, as in craft a decent…

  • The Value of Earning a MFA

    The Value of Earning a MFA

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    The jewel in the crown of my experience in earning my MFA lay not in achieving a marked improvement in my writing. While my MFA thesis went on to be published by a small press, the greatest gift I gave myself in undergoing the rigorous and rugged course of study, was the habit I developed…

  • To Earn a MFA or Not?

    To Earn a MFA or Not?

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    In my recent interview with novelist, Thrity Umrigar, we discussed the value of attaining a graduate degree in creative writing. Umrigar, holds a Ph.D. in Literature, teaches creative writing and African American Literature at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio.

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