Tag: Poems

  • How to Read Like a Writer

    How to Read Like a Writer

    by Jen Payne, author, Sleeping with Ghosts Some of my all-time favorite books on writing are classics, like Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott, Poemcrazy by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, or Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg. Those were the must-read books when I was…

  • GUEST WRITER: The Artwork of Sleeping with Ghosts

    GUEST WRITER: The Artwork of Sleeping with Ghosts

    by Jen Payne, author, Sleeping with Ghosts People often comment about the visual nature of my creative work, and how my writing is usually accompanied by photography or artwork. As a graphic designer, artist, and writer, I firmly believe that partnering visuals and words layers the intentions of my work and makes the communication more…

  • GUEST WRITER: Listening to Your Ghosts

    GUEST WRITER: Listening to Your Ghosts

    by Jen Payne, author, Sleeping with Ghosts For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him… — Plato Ghosts, Muses, Inspiration, Universe, God. Call it what you…

  • GUEST WRITER: About the Ghosts in Sleeping with Ghosts

    GUEST WRITER: About the Ghosts in Sleeping with Ghosts

    by Jen Payne, author, Sleeping with Ghosts I am a part of all that I have met;Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fadesFor ever and forever when I move.How dull it is to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!As tho’ to breathe were…

  • WOW! Women on Writing Interview with Jen Payne

    WOW! Women on Writing Interview with Jen Payne

    by Jodi Webb WOW: Jen, welcome back to WOW! Women on Writing with your fifth book Sleeping with Ghosts. What inspired you to write about past relationships? JEN: Hi Jodi. Thanks for welcoming me back to WOW! I loved working with all of you for Evidence of Flossing and am happy to be back for…