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Morning reflection: In 2006 I was sitting in Noah Eli Gordon's Intro to Creative Writing class, reading “The Balloonist” by Eula Biss, and discovering one of my true loves, poetry. Seven years later, I am pee-my-pants excited to get to spend the weekend in Eula's workshop with a whole bunch of my favorite writers and friends. Moments like these are good reminders that when we are faithful to our dreams, they are faithful to us. And even when it doesn’t feel like they are being faithful, they are great teachers.

Janelle DolRayne, poet

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The Balloonists

Image: The Electric Typewriter

I have been reading with my legs against a wall, upside down. This posture might be named 'the waitress'. Blood rushes from the feet, words to the head. Eula Biss's The Balloonists  was the book in hand.

Biss (nice nom de plume?) writes paragraphs of prose like poetry, about her, or her protagonist's, life: what became of marriage, what becomes of intimacy, the things which feel heavy and the things which make us light. 

He held up the map between us, so that the light shone through it, the roads on one side knotting with the roads on the other. His hand was a shadow on the web. He pressed his thumb on one point: "This is me". His index finger brushed another point: "This is you." He lifted his hand so that I could see the distance.

If anyone has a copy of No Man's Land they would like to lend me, plus suggestions for a similarly elegant nom de plume, write to the usual address.