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Poetry Writing
SAN DIEGO, Cali. (AP) - William Carlos Williams said it best: no ideas but in things.
Images are essential to poetry. Ideas are great for philosophy, but poetry needs things to move language.
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Fiction Writing
LA MESA, Cali. (AP) - Space time place is essential to writing the Great American Novel.
Moby Dick, On the Road, even American Psycho delve deep into the American conscience.
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Kelly Braden was born in Santa Rosa, California in 1976 and grew up in Tacoma, Washington. His father left home when he was four, and his childhood was troubled by poverty. He has worked as a handyman, a dishwasher, a stock boy, a warehouse worker, a genealogist, a basketball coach, a Big Box store manager, and a Dot Com Casualty.
Braden is the author of Hypermnesia (cockcrow press 2006). His poems have been published in Saxifrage, The Acorn Review, Damn Good Writing, The Pregnant Moon Review, and The San Diego Poetry Annual.
E-mail Kelly: Kelly at Kelly Braden dot com
Hypermnesia
Is Visionary
PORTLAND, Or. (AP) - Hypermnesia stirs images of former lovers, childhood hauntings, and encounters with true poetic vagabonds.
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Who Is Kelly Braden?
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - West coast poet Kelly Braden attempts to dissect the world around him, and color it with something more beautiful than ordinary observation.
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