Category: work
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Recipe
If you want a fun weekend, just put Collin and Reb and Gideon into it. (She sums it up better than me.)
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O Academe!
Working in academia has its pluses and minuses. All summer long I enjoyed what amounted to a private city, with restaurants empty at lunch time, wide sidewalks and quads free of pushing and shoving and skateboarders, and on-campus services like the gym and library that seemed to be waiting for me to command them into…
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Who Are the People in Your Office Suite?
Yesterday we had a wonderful reading by the staff who work with me at The Writer’s Center. Although we see each other on a virtually daily basis and though many of us talk freely about writing and art (including, sometimes our own), for many of us, it was our first opportunity to encounter each other…
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I Wanna School You
As part of my service to The Writer’s Center community, I’ve volunteered to teach two classes this winter: Reading Emerging Poetries and Writing Longer Poems and Sequences. The courses will meet once weekly for six weeks. Hope you can stop by. If not, all of our winter workshops just made it up onto the website.…
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A Five Hour Tour
I gave a brief presentation on The Writer’s Center in Arlington today, for a group of federal employees. I left my house (in Maryland) at 7 am to give myself a large cushion for arrival before the 9 am start time. I arrived at the place at 8:45 am. It was “10 miles,” according to…
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It’s All Official Now.
The papers are signed…. The powers that be have been notified…. So now I can tell you… I’m leaving ASU effective June 20! I’ve accepted the Director position at The Writer’s Center, a literary nonprofit community center, in Bethesda, MD! For those of you keeping score, this is my 18th move in 13 years. At…
Charles Jensen | Writer 