March 6th, 2015 FEATURED READERS

Please join Write on the DOT at The Banshee on March 6th at 6:30PM to hear these exciting local talents!

Danielle Legros-Georges

  

1. How long have you been living and/or studying in Dorchester?

I've been living in Dorchester 11 years.

 

2. Complete this sentence: I wouldn’t have made it through this winter without...

Winter?   What is this word Winter of which I have heard so much?

3. If you were on a warm, sunny stranded island which poet/author would you want for company?

Could it be a party? --  with Marlene Nourbese Philip, Wisława Szymborska, and Yusef Komunyakaa. 

 

4. Best writing advice you could put on a coffee mug?

 

Forward motion.

Liam Day

  

1. How long have you been living and/or studying in Dorchester? 

I first moved to Dorchester in 1994 right after college. I then moved out for a stretch, coming back in 2005.

                   2. Complete this sentence: I wouldn’t have made it through this winter without...

            Wine.

                 3.  If you were on a warm, sunny stranded island which poet/author would you want  for company?

Probably Oscar Wilde. He was witty and liked to drink. (That’s assuming there was alcohol on this stranded island.)

           4. Best writing advice you could put on a coffee mug?

Find a way to be productive even when you don’t feel productive.

 

Emily Jaeger

1.   How long have you been living and/or studying in Dorchester?

6 months

2. Complete this sentence: I wouldn’t have made it through this winter without...

The video of Marty Walsh telling Bostonians not to jump out windows “because this isn’t Loon Mountain.” 

3. If you were on a warm, sunny stranded island which poet/author would you want for company?

Thoreau, Mary Oliver, or Annie Dillard—someone with proven wilderness survival skills.

4. Best writing advice you could put on a coffee mug?

Make poetry your second daily habit.

 

Nazila Hafezi

               1. How long have you been living and/or studying in Dorchester? 

                  

                   Almost three years.

               2. Complete this sentence: I wouldn’t have made it through this winter without...

                    Netflix!

       3. If you were on a warm, sunny stranded island which poet/author would you want for company? 

               Roberto Bolaño, the great Chilean poet and author, who always lived in exile. For   his Savage Detectives and his amazing sense of humor in his writing, and for the fact that he had to switch from writing poems to writing novels in order to feed his family.

              4.  Best writing advice you could put on a coffee mug?

 

                   “Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing” –Sylvia Plath