This week we are completing our class  blogs.  I’ve asked my students to organize their best reading, writing, and music for publication.   I’ll teach them how to create reading lists so they can keep tabs on their classmates over the X-mas break.   I encourage them do something artful with their blogs, but I’ve seen their writing.  Many of their posts will be deeply personal accounts of the lives they lead.   The music is the rhythm of our writing.  The flow of our words convey who we are.  

Below, I share my most recent blog post for my reading of a Sam Shepard biography.  Sam became famous in the early sixties for mixing his prose with jazz rhythms.  His writing was experimental and prolific.  You never knew what was going to come out.  “It’s like drumming,” he once said. “If you miss a beat, you create another.”  We’ll miss you, Sam…

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