by Nancy Canyon | Feb 20, 2020 | Writing
practice, practice, practice!!! If you want to write, you must practice. This is to be true with all artistic endeavors. I have danced ballet and modern, played the piano and organ, sang in choirs, and currently I’m a painter, as well as a writer. Without a... by Nancy Canyon | Sep 12, 2019 | Resources
The Writer’s Portable Mentor, by Priscilla Long The Writer’s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life distills 20 years of teaching and creativity by the well-published author Priscilla Long. The Writer’s Portable Mentor helps... by Nancy Canyon | Sep 12, 2019 | Poetry
East: Twisting blacklocust limb breaksfalling to earth,spilling poison podsacross frozen ground.Father splits rotten wood,stokes stove fullwaiting for smolderto smudge brittle air.West: Rusting barbwireencloses creek willows,huddled naked, heavingagainst mountain... by Nancy Canyon | Sep 12, 2019 | Poetry
Previously printed in Spindrift, Shoreline Community College Journal. Blackberries ripen,plump and sweet.Birds flock to the beach,devour–chirping, chirping, chirping.In the sunny kitchen, my sisterbakes a crisp, fingers stained purplefrom picking berries at low... by Nancy Canyon | Sep 12, 2019 | Poetry
Sometimes, when the sky turnspink, I walk through the oat grassto where the ocean breathessalty air. It is there I see the curve of a woman’sjaw–a slight crescent moonshy in early morning sky, reflectingfrom still tide pool. My mirrored fingers reachto my flushed...
