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New Publication: An Essay in Defunct

Posted on October 2, 2013 by allisongreenwriter

I’m pleased to have an essay, “Séance,” in the very cool online journal Defunct. It’s about John F. Kennedy, the March on Washington, and other 1960s phenomena. Thanks to editor Amy Butcher for her excellent suggestions.

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Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Posted on September 18, 2013 by allisongreenwriter

Shortly after our wedding this month, Arline and I spent some time on the Oregon coast. Every day Arline would ask me: “Are you going to wear your ring to the beach?” Yes, I would say. “Are you going to … Continue reading →

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Summer

Posted on August 19, 2013 by allisongreenwriter

Every summer of my childhood, our family climbed into the 1972 copper-colored Valiant and traveled from Green Bay, where my father was teaching at the university, to the Pacific Northwest, where my grandparents lived. There was no air conditioning; we … Continue reading →

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Another Birthday

Posted on July 22, 2013 by allisongreenwriter

What saddens me is that I missed the first forty-five of Arline’s birthdays. I missed the debutante party that Arline didn’t even want but for which she gamely wore her hair in a tower. I missed her first birthday in … Continue reading →

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A Birthday

Posted on June 27, 2013 by allisongreenwriter

My mother remembers me playing on the floor of our living room and looking up at her: “I’m three!” I wasn’t quite three yet, but she didn’t contradict me. This story is about a little girl who loves her birthday, … Continue reading →

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Legacies

Posted on June 9, 2013 by allisongreenwriter

Recently, I walked Boston’s neighborhoods: brick and wrought iron, stoops and mansard roofs. In a park, I came across twelve snow figures, each about eight feet tall. They communed, faceless, in a circle. Nearby was a Methodist church; perhaps the … Continue reading →

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Video of Reading: “The Urge for Going”

Posted on May 17, 2013 by allisongreenwriter

My thanks to Jourdan Keith for inviting me to read as part of the Word’s Worth program, which is sponsored by Seattle City Council Member Nick Licata. My reading on April 10, 2013, is the first three minutes of this … Continue reading →

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New Publication: “Under the Skin” in The Common

Posted on April 23, 2013 by allisongreenwriter

The Common, a literary journal based at Amherst College, has published my essay “Under the Skin,” which tells the story of a week Arline and I spent in Panama trying to move her mother into a better nursing home. My … Continue reading →

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Dignity

Posted on April 11, 2013 by allisongreenwriter

Fourteen years ago, a woman named Arline asked me on a date. She took me to lunch in downtown Seattle, where we ate oysters and watched ferries glide away from the dock. I couldn’t have imagined then what it would … Continue reading →

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The Next Big Thing

Posted on March 1, 2013 by allisongreenwriter

At the opening of the Brautigan Library, Clark County Historical Museum, October 2010. Tag – you’re it! I don’t know who started the game, but many authors are now playing it. A writer posts answers to questions about her next … Continue reading →

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