Charlotte Lit’s Blog
Welcome to Charlotte Lit’s literary arts blog. What you’ll find here: reviews, interviews, craft essays, previews of literary arts events, and anything else that catches our attention.
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Why “The Iliad” Still Matters
/in Blog, Books /by Charlotte Lit Adminby Jeffrey Thomson The Iliad is a book of transitions; it is a fundamentally a book of liminal moments. This is a story from the basement of history—from the moment when we began the movement from an oral storytelling culture to a culture of written literature. It establishes many of the characters and tropes of the modern […]
Writing Interiority
/in Blog, Craft /by Charlotte Lit Adminby Dustin M. Hoffman Occasionally, I get jealous of other artistic mediums. All we have to tell our stories are these words on the page, black ink on a white page. This can seem like a disadvantage when looking at the explosive, varied forms of expression the other mediums wield. Sadly, we just won’t be […]
The Challenge is the Gift
/in Blog, Craft, Events, Inspiration, Performances, Readings, Reflections, Writing /by Charlotte LitBy Beth Murray Irania Macias Reymann and I are collaborators, kindred creative spirits, and we’ve written two plays together. In 2013, we wrote and toured a bilingual show with music for children called Mamá Goose. It was inspired by the beautiful Latino nursery rhyme anthology of the same title by Isabel Campoy and Alma […]
Make the Ordinary Sacred
/in Blog, Craft, Events, Poetry, Skill Development, Workshops, Writing /by Charlotte LitThe past two years have been interesting, as we have entered into and through a pandemic, learned new skills, and discovered things about ourselves we may not have known were there. In the midst of that time, I have found myself reading poems, articles, and stories that speak to real life and emotions. The overwhelming […]