Tammy's Trio
Reflections and Readings from My Bradbury Trio Program
I am not sure about you, but I feel like we have had no summer. There has been heat and a party to attend but that carefree feeling I had last year has been hiding somewhere. It was a much busier June and July for my husband and I this year as opposed to last.
I am thankful for where we are every day.
Next week, he goes back to school with full force! I am savoring the days we can start with coffee in the mornings together and ease into the activity.
The Bradbury Trio [reading a poem, an essay, and a story every day] fuels my writing. (I am teaching a course about the Trio starting Sunday!)
This trio structure works for me because I am inspired to write after I read.
I hope the reading you do today leads you to writing that could have not been created any other way.
Here are some of the texts that made an impact on me this week.
Poem: WIFE Ada Limon
I could read Ada Limon’s poetry all day. For The Sealey Challenge, I plan to read the collections I own of hers.
I love this poem because it examines a label and also utilizes an inventory.
Story: Just the Edges X-Ray Magazine
Love a story about tattoos. There are layers to this one I appreciate and want to revisit. This publication is one I have been enjoying for a long while and I have been resonating with many of the stories they have published lately.
Essay: Running the Road to Nowhere The Walrus
An examination of a real Road To Nowhere. Interesting concept I may have to write about in my notebook. It is an intriguing title!
Have you read anything interesting this week that you need to share!? Please do so in the comments! I love recommendations and have found some of my favorite stories that way.
A little more about me: Tammy L. Evans is a writer, teacher, and coach living in a tiny house on a peninsula with her husband and adventure cat. Her location device is her loud laugh. She is currently working on a short story collection. Her poetry has been published in The Storyteller, FoxGlove Journal, Story Hall, Blue Insights, The Partnered Pen, and others. Her fiction has been published in Gone Lawn, Cabinets of Heed, Spelk, Five on the Fifth, Clover and White, Fiction Berlin Kitchen, and others.
YES; A reading routine is a good habit indeed, I tend to spend mornings reading substacks, afternoons & early evenings writing or creating artwork, late evenings with a book. about once a week according to the weather I do outdoor stuff. I purchase 3-4 substack authors monthly, but as I now have over1.5K books overflowing all but the shower room, it's time to give them away. Post free to anywhere in the world. I will publish about that on substack Weds 30th August. Peace, Maurice.
Tammy, I am running behind lately...reasons not worth sharing, but it was only this morning that I got to the Coffee Share and upended it for my journal writing by starting, "If I were talking to you, I'd have to bury the thing that is foremost on my mind..." The pages can hold the silence sometimes.
The other thought I had when I read the Trio, is whether you have explored Eavan Boland at all. "Wife" is a text I'd sit next to Boland's "Against Love Poetry." I had never read Boland before, bought that collection, and within weeks learned that she'd died suddenly. I felt like I'd lost someone.
Too many thoughts here, but I wanted to say your words mean a lot to me.