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		<title>Pitching Magazine Articles: An Emotional Survival Guide</title>
		<link>http://lighthouseblog.org/2013/05/21/pitching-magazine-articles-an-emotional-survival-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denverdiatribe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Joel Warner I currently make my living as a nonfiction freelance writer. That means my existence consists of the emotional roller coaster that is pitching story ideas to editors. &#8230; <a href="http://lighthouseblog.org/2013/05/21/pitching-magazine-articles-an-emotional-survival-guide/" class="read-more">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouseblog.org&#038;blog=1286806&#038;post=5221&#038;subd=lighthousedenver&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Not that kind of pitching! Maybe shoot for a similarly unselfconscious facial expression.</media:title>
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		<title>Advice from Poets, Bliss Stations and the Stuff That Really Matters</title>
		<link>http://lighthouseblog.org/2013/05/20/poets-bliss-stations-stuff-that-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tqtyson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always learn so much from the poets. Last year I spent a week in Grand Lake with some of Lighthouse&#8217;s finest fiction writers, essayists and, yes, poets. Among them &#8230; <a href="http://lighthouseblog.org/2013/05/20/poets-bliss-stations-stuff-that-matters/" class="read-more">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouseblog.org&#038;blog=1286806&#038;post=5211&#038;subd=lighthousedenver&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chain Link Fences, Microscopes, and Mark Doty&#8211;A Novelist&#8217;s Take</title>
		<link>http://lighthouseblog.org/2013/05/16/chain-link-fences-microscopes-and-mark-doty-a-novelists-take/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjhenry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: Jo Harkins, a superb fiction writer, details her fascination with fences, plankton, and Mark Doty, who&#8217;ll be here for the Writer&#8217;s Studio this Saturday. Thanks, Jo! &#160; I &#8230; <a href="http://lighthouseblog.org/2013/05/16/chain-link-fences-microscopes-and-mark-doty-a-novelists-take/" class="read-more">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouseblog.org&#038;blog=1286806&#038;post=5196&#038;subd=lighthousedenver&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming a Literary Citizen, Facing Munro</title>
		<link>http://lighthouseblog.org/2013/05/13/becoming-a-literary-citizen-facing-munro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 05:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alison barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a Lighthouse craft experience shows its great value after a bit of time has passed. Lauren Groff brought a lot of game to the Lighthouse Grotto last month. Since &#8230; <a href="http://lighthouseblog.org/2013/05/13/becoming-a-literary-citizen-facing-munro/" class="read-more">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouseblog.org&#038;blog=1286806&#038;post=5123&#038;subd=lighthousedenver&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sturdy Skeleton: Building Nonfiction with Jason Heller</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andreadupree</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than most people I know, Jason Heller&#8217;s immersed in a writing life. A nonfiction writer, a novelist, a short story writer&#8211;somehow he manages to remain productive in all genres. &#8230; <a href="http://lighthouseblog.org/2013/05/13/a-sturdy-skeleton-building-nonfiction-with-jason-heller/" class="read-more">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouseblog.org&#038;blog=1286806&#038;post=5177&#038;subd=lighthousedenver&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Heller&#039;s one of those guys who manages to produce an unreasonable amount of great writing, but because he&#039;ll help you do the same, you still like him.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Taft 2012, Heller&#039;s wildly entertaining novel from last year, was called &#34;a stellar debut&#34; by Publisher&#039;s Weekly.</media:title>
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		<title>On Mark Doty &amp; Potent Noticing</title>
		<link>http://lighthouseblog.org/2013/05/09/on-mark-doty-potent-noticing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 17:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m glad Mike Henry posted “The Community Garden,” the piece that follows the title poem in Mark Doty’s fourth poetry collection, Atlantis. To me, the poem works almost as a &#8230; <a href="http://lighthouseblog.org/2013/05/09/on-mark-doty-potent-noticing/" class="read-more">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouseblog.org&#038;blog=1286806&#038;post=5172&#038;subd=lighthousedenver&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Member Dispatch: Preparing for Doty</title>
		<link>http://lighthouseblog.org/2013/05/08/member-dispatch-preparing-for-doty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andreadupree</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed. note: Rebecca Snow is a longtime member of Lighthouse&#8211;a poet and fiction writer with a novel forthcoming from Conundrum Press. Thanks for this contribution, Rebecca! You&#8217;ve got to love &#8230; <a href="http://lighthouseblog.org/2013/05/08/member-dispatch-preparing-for-doty/" class="read-more">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouseblog.org&#038;blog=1286806&#038;post=5163&#038;subd=lighthousedenver&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">This along with Doty&#039;s memoir FIREBIRD will be discussed on Saturday. No advance reading required.</media:title>
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		<title>On Story Design and Red-Hottiness: A few Qs for David Wroblewski</title>
		<link>http://lighthouseblog.org/2013/05/06/on-story-design-and-red-hottiness-a-few-qs-for-david-wroblewski/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andreadupree</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, David Wroblewski, widely considered the Chekhov of the Northern Suburbs (okay, maybe more the Faulkner), thrust Denver into the public literary consciousness when his beautiful debut &#8230; <a href="http://lighthouseblog.org/2013/05/06/on-story-design-and-red-hottiness-a-few-qs-for-david-wroblewski/" class="read-more">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouseblog.org&#038;blog=1286806&#038;post=5125&#038;subd=lighthousedenver&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">David Wroblewski&#039;s first novel, with a mood shot by Marion Ettinger.</media:title>
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		<title>May&#039;s curator: Franciszka Voeltz</title>
		<link>http://lighthouseblog.org/2013/05/04/mays-curator-franciszka-voeltz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 19:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alison barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from nola studiola REDUX: I’m proud to introduce Franciszka Voeltz, May’s curator. I met f.v. during the 2012 Nebraskan drought, during which we dug holes, shot bb guns, pondered &#8230; <a href="http://lighthouseblog.org/2013/05/04/mays-curator-franciszka-voeltz/" class="read-more">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouseblog.org&#038;blog=1286806&#038;post=5156&#038;subd=lighthousedenver&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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