On Writing

Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing at Colgate University

Fellowship and the Emerging Writer From Vela Magazine Sitting in my half-packed office at Colgate, I gazed outside at the spring rain dampening the old stone buildings of that beautiful campus. In that way that gray skies do, the overcast made the new green of the trees and grass more …

Folk Duet: Writing Discord and Folk Music

PUBLISHED ON OUP BLOG “Apathetic,” he scoffs. “Naïve and romantic,” I counter defensively. These songs are so self-absorbed!” “Those songs were so self-righteous!” This is Pete Seeger-biographer David Dunaway and me debating the evolution of American folk music from our distinct generational perspectives, and we aren’t, technically, arguing. Beyond the pot-shots, …