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		<title>Blog Challenge: Best Night Out</title>
		<link>http://mindiekniss.com/2009/12/06/blog-challenge-best-night-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[from Gwen Bell’s Best of 2009 Blog Challenge The Question:  Did you have a night out with friends or a loved one that rocked your world? Who was there? What was the highlight of the night? There were probably a &#8230; <a href="http://mindiekniss.com/2009/12/06/blog-challenge-best-night-out/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindiekniss.com&#038;blog=4806352&#038;post=308&#038;subd=kniss&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MFA Notes:  Barry Lopez</title>
		<link>http://mindiekniss.com/2009/02/09/mfa-notes-barry-lopez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mindie Kniss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barry Lopez spoke as a visiting writer at Pacific University&#8217;s MFA program winter residency.  I loved his introduction: “When you show up, you bring big trouble.”  This from the soft-spoken writer who documents the connection between land and people.  He &#8230; <a href="http://mindiekniss.com/2009/02/09/mfa-notes-barry-lopez/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindiekniss.com&#038;blog=4806352&#038;post=127&#038;subd=kniss&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MFA Notes:  Kim Barnes</title>
		<link>http://mindiekniss.com/2009/02/09/mfa-notes-kim-barnes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kim Barnes, author of the new novel A Country Called Home (and my thesis advisor!) told us, “Even if it’s a personal story, it’s NOT ABOUT YOU.”  That statement will forever change the way I think about memoir.  There is &#8230; <a href="http://mindiekniss.com/2009/02/09/mfa-notes-kim-barnes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindiekniss.com&#038;blog=4806352&#038;post=125&#038;subd=kniss&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MFA Notes:  Kwame Dawes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can still hear poet Kwame Dawes saying, “born at de right time,” in his smooth Jamaican accent.  He opened his craft talk with a brief biographical sketch: born in Ghana where he heard stories of glorious Jamaica from his &#8230; <a href="http://mindiekniss.com/2009/02/09/mfa-notes-kwame-dawes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindiekniss.com&#038;blog=4806352&#038;post=122&#038;subd=kniss&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MFA Notes:  Jack Driscoll</title>
		<link>http://mindiekniss.com/2009/02/09/mfa-notes-jack-driscoll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Driscoll described what he attempts to do through writing, “To speak what it feels like to be human.”  As far as I’m concerned, he could have ended his craft talk there and left us with the inspiration and invitation &#8230; <a href="http://mindiekniss.com/2009/02/09/mfa-notes-jack-driscoll/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindiekniss.com&#038;blog=4806352&#038;post=119&#038;subd=kniss&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MFA Notes:  Stephen Kuusisto</title>
		<link>http://mindiekniss.com/2009/01/23/mfa-notes-stephen-kuusisto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who better to implore us to listen than Stephen Kuusisto, a writer who has experienced much of the world through four of the five senses?  Steve, though blind since birth, uses rich imagery and visionary similes in his poetry and &#8230; <a href="http://mindiekniss.com/2009/01/23/mfa-notes-stephen-kuusisto/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindiekniss.com&#038;blog=4806352&#038;post=85&#038;subd=kniss&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MFA Notes: David Long</title>
		<link>http://mindiekniss.com/2009/01/23/mfa-notes-david-long/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Long suggested that there are always two strands to a story: 1) the story we’re telling and 2) the rendering or shaping of that story. “We don’t always give enough attention to the second half of that,” he said.  &#8230; <a href="http://mindiekniss.com/2009/01/23/mfa-notes-david-long/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindiekniss.com&#038;blog=4806352&#038;post=83&#038;subd=kniss&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MFA Notes: Mark Spragg</title>
		<link>http://mindiekniss.com/2009/01/21/mfa-notes-mark-spragg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Spragg reminded us to take the time, in editing and revising, to ensure that our characters stay true to themselves.  Not to the action we, as writers, think they will take or want them to take, but to remain &#8230; <a href="http://mindiekniss.com/2009/01/21/mfa-notes-mark-spragg/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindiekniss.com&#038;blog=4806352&#038;post=73&#038;subd=kniss&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>famous poets converge</title>
		<link>http://mindiekniss.com/2009/01/09/famous-poets-converge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[so there I am in small town Oregon, heading west along highway 30 and I&#8217;m crazy-thirsty.  I stop at the next gas station to buy something, anything, to cease the parch.  the cashier is ringing up my purchase when Ellen &#8230; <a href="http://mindiekniss.com/2009/01/09/famous-poets-converge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindiekniss.com&#038;blog=4806352&#038;post=40&#038;subd=kniss&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Claire Davis on The Habit of Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a tingling sensation that runs up my cheeks when I encounter something extraordinary. This happens each time I read my notes on Claire’s craft talk. I doubt we could we have had a more thoughtful and inspiring lecture &#8230; <a href="http://mindiekniss.com/2008/07/07/claire-davis-on-the-habit-of-art/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindiekniss.com&#038;blog=4806352&#038;post=33&#038;subd=kniss&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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