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Special Projects – Donna Trump
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Look for my byline in Maple Grove, St. Louis Park, Edina and Plymouth Magazines, where I’m currently a staff writer. I’m not teaching any Loft classes presently, but let me know if there’s a class you’d like me to propose! 2:07 pm · August 23, 2016. To start your day off right. twitter.com/nrdc/status/76. 1:48 pm · August 22, 2016. This is long and entirely worth it. twitter.com/lidiayuknavitc. 10:20 pm · August 21, 2016. Nate Parker and the Limits of Empathy nyti.ms/2bt7FVy. Blog of Kurtis Scaletta.
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Publications – Donna Trump
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8220;A Singular Certainty,” ConnotationPress.com. 8220;Seizure,”. 8220;Vestiges,”. 8220;Head Control,”. 8220;Igloo,”. Grey Sparrow Journal,. 8220;Mosaic,”. Blue Earth Review,. 8220;Beauty School,”. Dust and Fire,. 8220;The Necklace,”. 8220;The Bridge,”. The Talking Stick Vol. 19,. 8220;Wolf Notes,”. 8220;Weight Shift,”. 8220;An Open Window,”. A View From The Loft,. An Open Window: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose. Collaborator and editor), Homeward Bound and Hennepin County Library, 2009.
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Writing – Donna Trump
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See where I’ve been published. Take a look at the nice things Connotation Press. Has had to say about my writing, including my short story “A Singular Certainty” and a fun interview with Karen Stefano, fiction editor. 2:07 pm · August 23, 2016. To start your day off right. twitter.com/nrdc/status/76. 1:48 pm · August 22, 2016. This is long and entirely worth it. twitter.com/lidiayuknavitc. 10:20 pm · August 21, 2016. Nate Parker and the Limits of Empathy nyti.ms/2bt7FVy. 6:05 pm · August 19, 2016.
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April 2015 – Donna Trump
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On Penguins and Writing. April 28, 2015. A good friend of ours died yesterday: college buddy, the best man at our wedding, the amazing human being who, along with the beautiful wife whose left arm he h. The Secret Games of Words: Stories by Karen Stefano. April 21, 2015. Today, for the first time on this blog, I’m posting a review of a book written by a friend. The Secret Games of Words: Stories is a collection I highly re. AWP@MSP: A Top Ten List. April 14, 2015. Cross-Country Book Club: War and Peace.
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Donna Trump – Page 2 – Writer, Writing Teacher, Editor
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A Story About Possibility. July 19, 2016. Wheeler Peak, far right, highest point in Nevada’s Great Basin National Park. 8230;is a 200,000 square mile area that drains internally. All precipitation in the region evaporates, sinks underground or flows into lakes (mostly saline). Creeks, streams, or rivers find no outlet to either the Gulf of Mexico or the Pacific Ocean. 8211;where hummingbirds gathered around nectar feeders in greater numbers than the woman had ever before seen in her life. Is it very long?
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Poverty as a Medical Problem – Donna Trump
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Poverty and brain development. Poverty as a Medical Problem. July 28, 2015. Poverty affects children’s ability to learn. An article in Sunday’s (July 26, 2015) Star Tribune, “Brain scans show effects of poverty on kids,”. Is the kind of news I’m always interested in but which intrigued me especially this week. It’s a summary of a piece that recently appeared in. JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). And was first posted online in Bloomberg Business News. This take on it is, at least to me, ...
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Donna Trump – Donna Trump
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August 23, 2016. Friend, excellent writer, dog lover and fine man Brad Zellar wrote in a recent Facebook post that. Minnesota's Waiting Children. August 16, 2016. There’s a monthly feature, Minnesota’s Waiting Children, in the Variety section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which tells the story of a child. Loft Literary Center Sustaining Membership. The Loft Literary Center: Join and Support Today. August 9, 2016. AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship. August 2, 2016. July 26, 2016. Blog of Kurtis Scaletta.
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March 2015 – Donna Trump
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March 31, 2015. Holy Week, the week leading up to Easter, starts with Palm Sunday (commemorating Jesus’s return to Jerusalem, when palm leaves were placed in his path) an. Hope, or Why God is Probably Minnesotan: Week Five of Lenten Observance. March 24, 2015. I took this photograph two days after the spring equinox. Later that day, parts of Minnesota got a foot of snow. Nobody understands the need for a holiday celeb. Sin and Virtue: Week Four of Lenten Observance. March 17, 2015. March 10, 2015. We'll ...
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Writing the Query Letter First – Donna Trump
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Ben Percy and Preparing for the Worst. John cusick and the foolproof query letter. Writing the Query Letter First. July 14, 2015. A week or two ago I came across a Tweet by literary agent John Cusick with a link. To his excellent post on “Foolproof Query Letters.” The two visuals above are thanks to Mr. Cusick’s article. Basically, what he says in the post. Is that (after making SURE you get the agent’s name right) your query letter should consist of “X is Y until Z.”. Or how about this? The point is thi...
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June 2015 – Donna Trump
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10 Reasons I’m Sad This Week. June 30, 2015. I’ve read a few more reviews of Inside Out and just about every one notes (if not celebrates) its validation of the occasionally necessary triumph of Sadn. 8220;Inside Out” and the Science of Memory. June 23, 2015. I have been known to weep at Pixar movies–Monsters, Inc., Toy Story, maybe even Up. It might be because Peter Docter, the very talented Pixar director, is. Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg. June 16, 2015. On Penguins and Writing. June 9, 2015. Check Th...
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