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Category Archives: Other Writers
Three Ways To Speak English
Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have Jamila Lyiscott who is a self-professed “tri-tongued orator.” She weaves words about language, education, and the African Diaspora. In her powerful spoken-word essay, “Broken English,” she celebrates — and challenges — the … Continue reading
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Tagged Articulate, Broken English, Creativity, Jamila Lyiscott, Poetry, Slang, Writing Life
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The Web’s Secret Stories
Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we’re watching Brooklyn-based artist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris who works to make sense of the emotional world of the web. With deep compassion for the human condition, his projects troll the internet … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Creativity, Jonathan Harris, Memoir, Story, Truth, We Feel Fine, Writing Life
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What Makes a Word “Real?”
Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have English professor and linguist Anne Curzan who asks: what makes a word real? Curzan is a collector of slang words, a dissector of colloquialisms and a charter of language evolution. To put … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Curzan, Creativity, Dictionary, Language Evolution, New Words, Writing Life
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An Ode to Envy
Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have literary critic Parul Sehgal who asks: what is jealousy? What drives it, and why do we secretly love it? No study has ever been able to capture its “loneliness, longevity, grim … Continue reading
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Tagged Creativity, Envy, Jealousy, Parul Sehgal, Writing Life
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Everyday Moments, Caught in Time
Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have two-term U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. He is an English professor at City University of New York, where he has taught for more than 40 years. Accessibility is not a word … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Collins, Budapest, Creativity, Death, Forgetfulness, Mice, Poetry, Some Days, The Country, The Dead, U.S. Poet Laureate, Writing Life
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Celebrating Life on the Spectrum
Back when I inherited Storied Nights: An Evening of Spoken Word in late May 2013, I might have had no clue what I was going to do for programming in the short-term, but I knew I wanted to do an … Continue reading
Posted in Autism, My Life, Other Writers
Tagged Autism, Creativity, Memoir, Parenting, Poetry, Storied Nights, Unplanned Life, Writing Life
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Adventures in Twitter Fiction
Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we’re watching Andrew Fitzgerald who is shaping new ways for Twitter and writers to work together. In the 1930s, broadcast radio introduced an entirely new form of storytelling; today, micro-blogging platforms like Twitter are … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Fitzgerald, Creativity, Story, Twitter, Writing Life
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Poems of War, Peace, Women, Power
Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we’re watching poet Suheir Hammad perform two spine-tingling spoken-word pieces: What I Will and break (clustered) — meditations on war and peace, on women and power. She blends the stories and sounds of … Continue reading
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Tagged break (clustered), Creativity, Poetry, Suheir Hammad, War, What I Will, Women, Writing Life
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The Web As Art
Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we’re watching Brooklyn-based artist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris who collects stories: his own, strangers’, and stories collected from the internet, including his amazing project, We Feel Fine, which works to make sense of … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Creativity, Jonathan Harris, Memoir, Story, We Feel Fine, Writing Life
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