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New Essay

by Donna Tallent on January 19, 2022January 19, 2022

Featured in The Rumpus, my first pub of 2022: “We drove under power lines with putty-colored plastic spheres threaded through the center, dotting the skyline. I asked him what they were for. ‘That’s where someone threw their ball in the air and it got stuck.'”

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publishing, writing

Featuring: Artists in Queens

by Donna Tallent on June 4, 2021June 4, 2021

As a resident of Queens, I adore the fact this sweet piece of movable, transitory art exists as a way to bring writers together.

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art, books, nyc subway and bus, performance art

New Essay

by Donna Tallent on September 4, 2020May 30, 2021

A lyric essay I wrote about art and quilting and grief and hope and love featured in Michigan Quarterly Review.

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art, writing

What’s so hard about writing?

by Donna Tallent on August 14, 2020October 14, 2020

Writing is work. I write despite the fear of being judged, of making a mistake, of losing a loved one. I write despite deciding there’s nothing new left to say, that it’s all been said before.

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art, conservation, illustration, introvert thoughts, painting, revisions, writing

Writing Mood Board

by Donna Tallent on May 26, 2020October 14, 2020

My writing mood board full of quotes, color symbolism, and textile art collected over several years

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art, illustration, writing

Interview! Figurative Expressionist and Portrait Artist Betty Southerland

by Donna Tallent on April 20, 2020October 14, 2020

“I think of happiness and joy as the ultimate rebellious act. Art makes joy and joy makes art.”

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art, conservation, illustration, introvert thoughts, painting, performance art

Interview! Writer and Publishing Assistant Laura Hart

by Donna Tallent on February 21, 2020October 14, 2020

“I wrote about my dolls. I wrote about the dogs I owned on a video game. I don’t recall a point in time when I consciously thought about the transition from reader-only to reader-writer. It just happened.”

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books, introvert thoughts, publishing, revisions, writing

Author Joe Moran on Good Sentences

by Donna Tallent on August 30, 2019October 14, 2020

“Skilled writers…see the sentence as the ur-unit, the granular element that must be got right or nothing will be right.”

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art, books, revisions, writing

On Self-Awareness

by Donna Tallent on June 14, 2019October 14, 2020

Marc Kaminsky: “…the saddest thing is to see a person struggle week after week against the knowledge of who he is, the knowledge that is always trying to come home to him.”

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books, library finds, writing

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