To Support Your Writing Process, Books and other things I love.
Purchase My Book Of Poetry As Simple As That
Journals I Designed are Available on Amazon
My Meditations & Courses:
Facing The Blank Page
Living Your Most Creative Life
How To Live Outside Your Comfort Zone
Poetic Journaling
Found Voices© The Podcast
Available on Spotify, Insight Timer, and Audible.
Other Blank Journals:
The Moleskine Journal
The Sketchbook
The Smaller Sketchbook
Lilly Pulitzer Large Hardcover Spiral: It Was All A Dream
SIDE-EYE ON THE APOCALYPSE; An Anthology of Prose and Poetry from 2020
Featuring Jack Grapes, Myself, and many of the writers I have studied with over the years.
What You'll Need For Adventures In Writing:
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Method Writing, The First Four Concepts Jack Grapes
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Method Writing, The Art of Tonal Dynamics Jack Grapes
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Read these three Method Writers Speak to understand how Jack Grapes Method Writing© can transform your writing? Check out the Method Writers Speak Series (My work appears in books 2 & 3)
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Poetry
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Like A Beggar, Ellen Bass
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Love Is A Dog From Hell, Charles Bukowski
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All Of Us—The Collected Poems, Raymond Carver
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Mayakowvsky's Revolver; Matthew Dickman
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Portable Kisses, Tess Gallagher
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The Blessing and Collected Poems, Richard Jones
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This Perfect Life, Kate Knapp Johnson
New Selected Poems, Mark Strand
Fiction and Memoir (including Gothic Horror, Mystery, Detective and Psychological Fiction & Thriller)
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A Visit From The Goon Squad: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Jennifer Egan
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story, John Berendt
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Trust Exercise: A Novel, Susan Choi
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I Have Some Questions for You: A Novel, Rebecca Makkai
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Cathedral, Raymond Carver
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The Midnight Library, Matthew Haig
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The Paper Palace: A Novel, Miranda Cowley Heller
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Not By Accident; Samantha Dunn
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Magpie Murders, Anthony Horowitz
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Gone Girl; Gillian Flynn
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The Pat Hobby Stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Short Stories: The First Forty-nine Stories
with a Brief Preface by the Author, Ernest Hemingway​
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
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Strangers On A Train, Patricia Highsmith
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Cowboys Are My Weakness, Pam Houston
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In A Lonely Place, Dorothy Hughes
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Ride The Pink Horse, Dorothy Hughes
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Mexican Gothic, Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
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Silver Nitrate, Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
The New York Stories, John O'Hara
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The Maid: A Novel, Nita Prose
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No One Will Miss Her, Kat Rosenfield
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POP 1280, Jim Thompson
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The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
Chronology of Water, Lydia Yuknavich
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Books About Writing, Creativity, and Life
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When The Rewards Can Be So Great; Essays on Writing & The Writing Life
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The Right to Write An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life; Julia Cameron
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Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making; John Fox
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Change Your Thoughts—Change Your Life, Living the Wisdom of the Tao; Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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Big Magic: Creative Living Without Fear; Elizabeth Gilbert
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Judgment Detox: Release the Beliefs That Hold You Back From Living a Better Life; Gabrielle Bernstein
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You Can Heal Your Life; Louise Hay
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Books Written By My Friends
Paddle to Paddle, Lois Chapin
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The Naked Eye: New and Selected Poems, 1987-2012;
Jack Grapes
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WIDE ROAD to the edge of the world
301 Haiku and One Long Essay: "A Windswept Spirit":
Jack Grapes
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Uncertain Resident, Tova Hinda Siegel
Dr. Nightingale's Workbook for Mental Health
During a Pandemic, Dr. Lois Nightingale
Kicking Towards the Deep End, Lisa Segal
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Above Houses, Broken Windows, Oceans, Alima Sherman
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