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Monthly Archives: January 2016
The Newest Difference
This week started out slowly, that is, if I begin my week just after the last blog post. Not the posting of the presentation I gave as part of the Faculty Association professional development panel, but the one called And … Continue reading
Posted in On Fiction, On the Novel, Sabbatical
Tagged 40-something, Adam Penna, Carl Jung, Change, fiction, Joseph Campbell, Jungian, Marc McGurl, men of faith, non-fiction, novel, Novelist, philosophy, Poetry, poets, religion, Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, Turning 40, Writing
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Yays & Nays: Making Love and Meaning Out of Nothing at All*
When SKG asked me to participate in this panel (or, rather, when I volunteered), I was pretty sure I knew what I was going to talk about. Early in my career here, at Suffolk, I was told there was no difference, … Continue reading
Posted in essays, Panel Discussions, Presentations
Tagged Adam Penna, Emerson, FASCC, Fiction in the Program Era, Francis Bacon, Look Homeward Angel, Marc McGurl, NYSUT, NYU, Poems, Poetry, pragmatism, Professors on Wheels, ralph waldo emerson, Regan, Risk, Suffolk County Community College, Thomas Wolfe, Unionism
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And And And
This week’s writing has been characterized by the feeling Dante describes in the first canto of the Inferno. I find myself lost in a deep dark wood, fearing it’s a wood of error. Still, I’m old enough and mature enough … Continue reading
Posted in On the Novel
Tagged A Coast of Trees, Adam Penna, AR Ammons, Dante, Homer, James Joyce, John Berryman, Knausgaard, My Struggle, novel, Novels, Poetry, poets, The Dream Songs, The Iliad, The Inferno, the writing process, Ulysses, Writing
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On Sabbatical Number 2 and the Big Genre Change
I haven’t regularly blogged here for many years, despite the posts about publications and other things, but now is as good a time as any to begin again. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say begin again again because I know there’s already … Continue reading
Posted in Sabbatical
Tagged Adam Penna, fiction, gradschool, Marc McGurl, novel, Poetry, workshops, Writing
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An Essay Published in Straight Forward Poetry
Thanks to Lindsey Lewis Smithson and Straight Forward for publishing my essay “What It Means to Be Contemporary: A Meditation.” You can read it now here. I wrote this some years ago while teaching a contemporary lit class.
Posted in Publications
Tagged Adam Penna, essay, essays, Lindsey Lewis Smithson, publications, Straight Forward Poetry
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