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Sep 9, 2024 | 
pw.org | Geoff Bouvier
In our Craft Capsules series, authors reveal the personal and particular ways they approach the art of writing. This is no. 210. I’m going to give you a writing exercise, but first, a note about bodily writing exercises, or, as the poet CAConrad calls one version of them, “somatic” writing exercises. Whimsical to the point of joyful absurdity, Conrad’s exercises engage the writer’s body in ways that aim for mindful discomfort.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
pw.org | Geoff Bouvier
In our Craft Capsules series, authors reveal the personal and particular ways they approach the art of writing. This is no. 209. The proprioceptive nervous system is fascinating. Every millimeter of our bodies is covered with a rhizomic net of tiny interconnected nerves—the proprioceptors—right below the skin and embedded in all of our muscles, which handles balance and motor control.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Geoff Bouvier
When I proclaim that history is in need of creative revision, I don’t mean that we need to make stuff up. Quite the opposite. I mean that novelists, poets, and creative nonfiction writers can write work that sets our historical records straight, and that’s exactly what our culture needs right now.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
pw.org | Geoff Bouvier
In our Craft Capsules series, authors reveal the personal and particular ways they approach the art of writing. This is no. 208. If you’ve ever played a brass or wind instrument, you know how much the whole body contributes to each note. Picking up the saxophone or oboe again after months of not playing, your facial muscles and diaphragm fatigue in moments, you can’t breathe properly, and the few notes you can manage sound terrible. The body, as much as the instrument, produces the sound.
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Jan 20, 2024 | 
sandiegoreader.com | Judith Moore |Barbara Palmer |Jangchup Phelgyal |Geoff Bouvier
Black Muslims on Imperial Avenue, Negroes in Golden Hill, Black vintage, acting white, Shirley Anne Williams, black ex-pats in TJ Golden Age Garden Apartments (740 South 36th Street), built in 1983, has 76 apartments on its four floors. Requirements for obtaining an apartment here are that one be an ambulatory senior citizen or disabled person. Average age of residents is 65; ages range from 62 to 90 plus.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
sandiegoreader.com | Geoff Bouvier |Jeannette DeWyze |Don McCullough |Thomas Lux
Opossums came around 1890, San Diego pigeon fanciers favor females, taxidermist knows ducks, the hated roof rats, panthers – only tigers and lions are largerLooking at the first of many instances of San Diego hydroseeding, across from Costco and Ikea along Friars Road, Deméré declared, "I don't mean to dis botany completely. I can appreciate plants." But more often along our trip he would indicate that roadside landscaping was, to a geologist, a kind of proliferating evil. By Geoff Bouvier, Jan.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
sandiegoreader.com | Geoff Bouvier |Gideon Rappaport |Matthew Lickona |Bill Manson
Serious Jew talks Christmas with serious Catholic, what Judith Moore meant to Reader writers, P.B. hard line on liquor, Jerry Schad shows me Carrizo Badlands, Sudanese Lost Boys in Coronado"I played Nakamura. He was 18 years old at the time, at the 2005 U.S. Championship. His name is Hikaru Nakamura. And he's the top U.S. player right now." This is the top chess player in San Diego, international master (IM) Cyrus Lakdawala, 46. He's telling me about the strongest opponent he's ever faced.
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Oct 1, 2023 | 
sandiegoreader.com | Geoff Bouvier |Abe Opincar |Barbarella Fokos
The rocks in and around San Diego have composed amazing, fiery stories for a very long time. An ancient ocean once covered this county; volcanoes used to spew here; and more or less sudden mountains rose and fell in San Diego more than once. This area is currently the most geologically active and diverse in the country. By Geoff Bouvier, Jan. 13, 2005He had a passion to do well. She had a passion to do good. Together, they touted his investment scheme, which bilked a thousand investors of $80 million.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
sandiegoreader.com | Joe Deegan |Geoff Bouvier |Thomas Larson
Pick-up B-ball in P.B., Marilyn Monroe at the Hotel Del, where farm workers get sex in Oceanside and CarlsbadLegend and song have pictured rodeo cowboys as hard-driving, hard-drinking, woman-chasing free spirits. “And that’s true,” says the Reverend Bob Harris, a handsome 52-year-old former cowboy himself. “But I’m not trying to persuade these people to quit what they’re doing. That’s not my goal.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
sandiegoreader.com | Patrick Daugherty |Joe Deegan |Geoff Bouvier
Men evaluate their own bodies in Reader swimsuit issue, those who knew Tim LaHaye before Left BehindWhat follows are the words of Padres who came before, beginning with players who were on that first team, who played in that first game, April 8, 1969, recorded as a 2–1 win over the visiting Houston Astros. Of note, San Diegans were not starstruck by the arrival of Major League Baseball: only 23,370 customers paid their way into San Diego/Jack Murphy/Qualcomm Stadium to witness First Opening Day.
