I thought I would start to share with you all the writings of Peter Maurin, the co-founder — along with Dorothy Day — of the Catholic Worker Movement. His works and philosophy come to us in a free verse-style form he called his easy essays. I think we will find them relevant to a number of issues we regularly deal with on this blog. Here’s a couple to get us started: [...]

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Okay, so I want to be a writer or whatever. And occasionally I write. The problem I’ve had, however, is in having an audience to read what I write. So I don’t really know how bad I suck or how royally I rule. Just last week, I attended my first critique session. Went pretty well, I think. But then I thought, Hot dang, I’ve got all these well-read friends on the blog that maybe might be willing to serve as critics for me as well.

So what do you say?  

And maybe you’ve got some things you’d like others to read, too. Could we have a category where we post “Works in Progress” or some such thing? Perdy good idea if you ask me.

Guess I’ll start. Tell me what you think. And although I’m willing to discuss the subject matter of whatever I post, I’d like the discussion to go past that and also to focus on the form, the structure. Like, does it work or not. I know I’m not dealing with literary critics here; but those types are useless anyway. It’s you all, the common reader, and your response that I’m most interested in. Here’s a poem I wrote the other day:

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Who’s coming? If anyone needs to stay at my place we have a room available.

…just bought her second Hammond organ of the year.