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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
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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:
Method Writing, The First Four Concepts Jack Grapes
Method Writing, The Art of Tonal Dynamics Jack Grapes
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Poetry
Like A Beggar, Ellen Bass
Love Is A Dog From Hell, Charles Bukowski
All Of Us—The Collected Poems, Raymond Carver
Mayakowvsky's Revolver; Matthew Dickman
Portable Kisses, Tess Gallagher
The Blessing and Collected Poems, Richard Jones
This Perfect Life, Kate Knapp Johnson
New Selected Poems, Mark Strand
Fiction and Memoir (including Gothic Horror, Mystery, Detective and Psychological Fiction & Thriller)
A Visit From The Goon Squad: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Jennifer Egan
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story, John Berendt
Trust Exercise: A Novel, Susan Choi
I Have Some Questions for You: A Novel, Rebecca Makkai
Cathedral, Raymond Carver
The Midnight Library, Matthew Haig
The Paper Palace: A Novel, Miranda Cowley Heller
Not By Accident; Samantha Dunn
Magpie Murders, Anthony Horowitz
Gone Girl; Gillian Flynn
The Pat Hobby Stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Short Stories: The First Forty-nine Stories
with a Brief Preface by the Author, Ernest Hemingway
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
Strangers On A Train, Patricia Highsmith
Cowboys Are My Weakness, Pam Houston
In A Lonely Place, Dorothy Hughes
Ride The Pink Horse, Dorothy Hughes
Mexican Gothic, Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
Silver Nitrate, Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
The New York Stories, John O'Hara
The Maid: A Novel, Nita Prose
No One Will Miss Her, Kat Rosenfield
POP 1280, Jim Thompson
The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
Chronology of Water, Lydia Yuknavich
Books About Writing, Creativity, and Life
When The Rewards Can Be So Great; Essays on Writing & The Writing Life
The Right to Write An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life; Julia Cameron
Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making; John Fox
Change Your Thoughts—Change Your Life, Living the Wisdom of the Tao; Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Big Magic: Creative Living Without Fear; Elizabeth Gilbert
Judgment Detox: Release the Beliefs That Hold You Back From Living a Better Life; Gabrielle Bernstein
You Can Heal Your Life; Louise Hay
Books Written By My Friends
Paddle to Paddle, Lois Chapin
The Naked Eye: New and Selected Poems, 1987-2012;
Jack Grapes
WIDE ROAD to the edge of the world
301 Haiku and One Long Essay: "A Windswept Spirit":
Jack Grapes
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
Above Houses, Broken Windows, Oceans, Alima Sherman
