GRAVER GOODS PRESS

GRAVER GOODS, a publishing and educational initiative established 2019.

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We’re so pleased to announce two new Impracticum instructors: David Shields (@_DavidShields) and Catherine Lacey (@_catherinelacey)!

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Four years ago, Denis Johnson died. Here he is, looking into my soul and writing what he sees.

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I’m elated to have a new poem in @NewYorker this week featuring a good storm, the husband, cherry blossoms, and The Womb. 🌸 🏡 🌸

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"To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.” -Paul Valéry

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Sending so many thanks to @_catherinelacey for teaching her first Impracticum course titled 'The Practical Writer.' It was a true joy.

Check out our Impracticum program here! https://t.co/Zs1UDRi1sf

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“Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?” -James Baldwin

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“I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.” -Albert Camus

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“At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.” —Anne Carson https://t.co/tf1drAjJDs

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What's the best piece of writing advice you've received?

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“Roy Lichtenstein would say most painters fail at art because they know what the picture is going to be before they approach the canvas.” —Walter Mosley https://t.co/eclHgoAykG

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“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love.” -Simone Weil

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"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." -Isaac Asimov

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"Always be a poet, even in prose." -Charles Baudelaire

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"Pragmatism isn’t the enemy of beauty. Pragmatism allows beauty to happen."

Literature Should Be Taught Like Science https://t.co/xMFB1bhe6L via @NautilusMag

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“How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.”

-Don DeLillo, The Names

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“If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings. ” -Elizabeth Bishop

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“I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.”

-James Joyce, Ulysses

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“The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.” ― Stanley Elkin

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“The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.”

From “Waiting for God” by Simone Weil

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From our prose book review editor: Colorado Review is seeking to expand our pool of fiction/nonfiction book reviewers. Regular reviewers are sent a list of available titles to potentially cover each quarter, and our focus is on small presses. (1/3)

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And so it begins!