Author: Cliff

>I want to see a moose. I still haven’t, but Jim, one of the other writers living in the same cabin I’m in, saw…

>Tuesday began with a lecture by poet Linda Gregerson called “The Social Life of Poems.” I’ll tell you more about that when have time…

>Ostensibly a rest day, there was no lecture in the morning. Some participants ran in the “Writer’s Cramp Race”–a 2.8 mile run down to…

>Sunday’s activities began with a Lecture by Josip Novakovich called “Writing in English as a Second Language” which mostly consisted of him reading a…

>First up on Saturday was David Baker’s Lecture: Lyric Poetry and the Problem of Time. While I didn’t attend–I had final preparations to do…

>It’s beginning to get a little hard to know what day it is, but I think yesterday was Friday. We started the day with…

>I feel like we’re slowly getting started. The first event of the day was a “craft” lecture by William Kittredge: “Getting Started, or Unexpected…

>The B&B in Middlebury (The Swift House Inn) was nice–a great place to relax after the long drive north. After a good night’s sleep,…

>I leave for Bread Loaf early Tuesday morning. The conference doesn’t start until Wednesday evening, but it’s a long drive and I didn’t want…

>. . . dog kenneling, trash recycling, gas tank filling, tire rotating, lawn mowing, fridge emptying, clothes washing, mail stopping, story submitting, hard-drive up-backing,…