Revising Your Writing with Ruth Thompson Saturday July 11th 9:30 a.m. – noon Hilo Public Library, 300 Waianuenue Ave, Hilo HI This workshop will focus on revising your writing – discovering concrete, fresh ways to communicate more powerfully. Ruth will focus on how to use image and sound, how to give your readers the experience…
Here’s everything to do with Crazing in one place. Thanks to SRP for the digital images of the cover and author photo and the press releases (including a one-page version). Please let me know if anything is missing. CRAZING by Ruth Thompson, Publication Date: August 1st, 2015$13.00 ($15.50 Canada) Paperback • 5.5” x 8.5” 52…
Review of Crazing on Reiter’s Block. Jendi Reiter, whom I admire greatly both as a poet (I was honored to write a blurb for Bullies in Love) and an editor (Winning Writers Newsletter), today posted a lovely review of Crazing on her blog, Reiter’s Block. Jendi included two of the poems from Crazing, including “Mary…
Here’s the video of a reading I gave on June 13th, 2015 at the Hilo Public Library, after teaching a writing class to a great group of writers. We were joined by more people from the community for the reading. Don Mitchell made and edited the video. It runs 20 minutes. The energy this day…
Another poem from Crazing. Recorded at a delightful reading on June 13th at the Hilo Public Library. Losing the Words Wantons, they’d give themselves to anyone!See how they slip in and out of one another’s clothes? How—dressed in zinnia-colored feathers, giggling—they settle to the lip like birds, then flicker away? Oh, they hide behind the…
I’m so moved by these early responses to CRAZING! (Please contact me if you would like a review copy!) From Jessamyn Smyth, author of Kitsune: These poems vibrate on the page with essential, powerful life-force, in language as playful and gorgeously-lit as it is sharply wise. Thompson’s work offers multiple intelligences we direly need in…