#past ten

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Hi, I'm excited to announce Past Ten. At past-ten.com, I ask people to reflect on how they've changed over the past ten years, and they share where they were a decade earlier. This online space hopes to serve as a testament to the transformative power of time and the human capacity to turn the unpredictable into art. The main aim is to inspire others to ponder their own existence, and how they have changed over the past ten years; to encourage others to persevere another decade. The site will also be a resource for discovering charitable organizations in need of support. Many thanks to the inaugural cohort: Tyrese L. Coleman, Kali VanBaale, Panasit Chaiyanan and Nick. I love their stories, and I think you will too. There will be new posts to the site every Wednesday!

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MWP INTERVIEW WITH DONALD QUIST

"Writing is literal alchemy", an MWP interview with Donald Quist by Meditative Week of Poetry

Donald Quist is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist. He is an assistant professor at the University of Missouri and the executive e

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Past Ten + A View From the Keyboard...

And so time marches on…

Here’s to hoping you are all warm, safe, happy, and not too hungover, and don’t have to be to work today! Unless you want or need to be, and don’t really mind. I hope you got to spend time with family and friends over the past couple weeks, or just relax next to a fire, or in a warm tub, or even just lounge about in a robe all day, drinking White Russians and watching The Big Lebowski.

If you have a few minutes and are curious about A VIEW FROM THE KEYBOARD of yours truly, you can see a pic of the spot I did a fair amount of writing and editing of Chinese Gucci, and read a little excerpt too. And if you woke up wondering “where was Hosho ten years ago today,” you’re in luck…as I’ve written about exactly that (and about my tumultuous relationship with ambition) over at PAST TEN. I’d like to thank the editors of both spots for giving me a little space to blather on, and, of course, to you all for your interest and support.

Happy 2019 to you and yours!

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So This Podcast Will Change Your Life we are. We are also quite Quist, as well as Harbors, race, class, Kali VanBaale, Election Day, Dark Phoenix, rage, Dave Chappelle, Thailand, privilege, the Constitution, AWP 2017 - and all that is to come, Past Ten and much, more more. So please do hit it, it will most certainly change your life.

At #AWP17, I got the chance to sit and chat with Ben Tanzer for This Blog Will Change Your Life. We talked about race, class, expatriation, Awst Press, Past Ten and Harbors by Donald Quist. With shoutouts to Kali VanBaale, Mathieu Cailler, Vanessa Blakeslee and Sophfronia Scott.