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Author: Darren Donate

Advice to Young Writers

October 3, 2019Darren Donate

One of the things I’ve repeated to writing students is that they should write when they don’t feel like writing, just sit down and start, and when it doesn’t go very well, to press on then I thought about this… Continue Reading →

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Finding the Heart’s Balance

June 19, 2019Darren Donate

Beauty is important in poetry, but it isn’t everything. Oftentimes, I tell students that are working on their own projects—whether it is poetry, fiction, or nonfiction—to write something that is true to themselves. I think often of what Ron Padgett… Continue Reading →

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