Tag: Elizabeth Ammons

John Gardner’s On Moral Fiction

Post author By megmoseman
Post date February 17, 2020
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I haven’t read John Gardner’s fiction, though I have a copy of Grendel now (a ratty, cheap used copy from the bookstore where I work, with this sublimely horrible blurb: “…warm, friendly, compassionate….a kind of Medieval King Kong!”), but I really enjoy his writing advice. This book is no exception. I won’t be able to […]

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Elizabeth Ammons and Diana Wynne Jones

Post author By megmoseman
Post date April 30, 2018
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Today I bring tidings of two minor projects I’m working on as a result of the Grad School Bug: reading Elizabeth Ammons’ Brave New Words, a call for optimistic, inclusive, and activist teaching in the humanities, and writing an essay exploring the concepts of truth Diana Wynne Jones develops in four pivotal poems in her […]

Tags academic writing, activism, Diana Wynne Jones, Elizabeth Ammons, guilt, literary theory, Musings, my heart is Cleanth Brooks while my conscience believes in social justice, poetry, purpose of literature, reading

I’m Meg. I’ve enjoyed drawing, writing, and assembling books since the age when I could barely write my own name. I live in the mountains of Montana. In my spare time, I read, write, and illustrate fantasy and poetry, mostly centered on a huge project I call my “I want to be William Blake when I grow up” project. Favorite authors include C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Diana Wynne Jones, Kafka, Melville, Dickinson, and many others. My poetry has appeared in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly and The Mythic Circle, and I’ve done a bit of self-publishing too! Check out my Amazon author page, or, if pictures are more your thing, my Instagram, and my Redbubble.