in late march, i visited albright college to speak about what it's like to be a professional writer but also the less directly named yet implied job title of interviewer. and then journalist, poet, editor, publisher, blogger, and recorder of narratives. i'll credit that listing to marian wolbers who teaches english at the college and kindly set up this venture as an experience event on the campus.
ezra ali dow kindly helped with photography, and i believe i told him when i met him that his name is poetry. if i didn't, he'll learn it when he glimpses these scenes and these paragraphs. ezra runs the literary publication on campus as well as an almost unheard of two open mics monthly. that is a lot when are juggling a college workload.
talks of and questions about working with editors, pitching article ideas, tying in photography as a skill, how being good with deadlines can make or break the possibility of new assignments, the importance of keeping the ego out of interviewing, how to get editors to pay attention to you, and so much more came across during the evening. all good points to get out in the open. i loved the enthusiastic inquiries of the students. and i felt proud to remind them that they need to remember to believe in themselves and be the go-getters in this world. this is becoming more and more crucial as our society (and others across the globe) and its systems shift, bump around, and endure a lot of often far from easy factors across being human.
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