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Burning the Little Candle: An Anthology of Writing from the Faculty & Staff of American River College's Creative Writing Program

Burning the Little Candle: An Anthology of Writing from the Faculty & Staff of American River College's Creative Writing Program

Christian Kiefer
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To an outside observer, north Sacramento, California might seem an unlikely place for a creative writing mecca. The fact that American River College is a state-funded, public education community college might make it seem even more unlikely. And yet American River College has drawn some of the area’s most talented creative writers to its halls and has published, for a quarter century, their work in the award-winning American River Review.

Burning the Little Candle, a title borrowed from the poetry of Philip Levine, offers a selection from the work of that creative writing department’s faculty and staff including new and previously published work by Lois Ann Abraham, Aaron Bradford, Christian Kiefer, Shane Lipscomb, John Bell, Traci Gourdine, Jason Sinclair Long, Harold Schneider, Michael Angelone, Michael Spurgeon, Rod Siegfried, David Merson, and Emily Hughes. As former American River College student Anthony Swofford writes in his introduction, “go now, read these working and teaching artists. And learn.”


Praise for BURNING THE LITTLE CANDLE

BURNING THE LITTLE CANDLE is an anthology built on the complexities of relationships—mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, lovers, real and imagined, and most of all this is literature about the relationship with the self, where the shadow of the past stretches long over the present and no matter how much we reach toward a sliver of connection, hope, and light, we are thrust into solitude in sometimes violent, but always passionate and unexpected ways. This is literature written by not only teachers of the craft, but masters of it in their own right.
--Jodi Angel, author of YOU ONLY GET LETTERS FROM JAIL

I made the afternoon deliveries with a hand-drawn map. There it is: I thought I saw it through a line of trees in the cold winter twilight; I was delivering light fixtures for the Hobrecht Light Company. American River was a community college in Sacramento's new suburbs on its northern edge. The college was fresh. I was a bored adolescent with faraway dreams. The writers in this anthology--"the faculty and staff of American River College's Creative Writing Program"--describe a city as compelling and mysterious any capital I have ever visited. I am lost in my hometown. I can stop as long as I put away any thought of maps.
--Richard Rodriguez, author of HUNGER OF MEMORY
Language
English
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Ad Lumen Press
Release
April 01, 2013

Burning the Little Candle: An Anthology of Writing from the Faculty & Staff of American River College's Creative Writing Program

Christian Kiefer
4.5/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
To an outside observer, north Sacramento, California might seem an unlikely place for a creative writing mecca. The fact that American River College is a state-funded, public education community college might make it seem even more unlikely. And yet American River College has drawn some of the area’s most talented creative writers to its halls and has published, for a quarter century, their work in the award-winning American River Review.

Burning the Little Candle, a title borrowed from the poetry of Philip Levine, offers a selection from the work of that creative writing department’s faculty and staff including new and previously published work by Lois Ann Abraham, Aaron Bradford, Christian Kiefer, Shane Lipscomb, John Bell, Traci Gourdine, Jason Sinclair Long, Harold Schneider, Michael Angelone, Michael Spurgeon, Rod Siegfried, David Merson, and Emily Hughes. As former American River College student Anthony Swofford writes in his introduction, “go now, read these working and teaching artists. And learn.”


Praise for BURNING THE LITTLE CANDLE

BURNING THE LITTLE CANDLE is an anthology built on the complexities of relationships—mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, lovers, real and imagined, and most of all this is literature about the relationship with the self, where the shadow of the past stretches long over the present and no matter how much we reach toward a sliver of connection, hope, and light, we are thrust into solitude in sometimes violent, but always passionate and unexpected ways. This is literature written by not only teachers of the craft, but masters of it in their own right.
--Jodi Angel, author of YOU ONLY GET LETTERS FROM JAIL

I made the afternoon deliveries with a hand-drawn map. There it is: I thought I saw it through a line of trees in the cold winter twilight; I was delivering light fixtures for the Hobrecht Light Company. American River was a community college in Sacramento's new suburbs on its northern edge. The college was fresh. I was a bored adolescent with faraway dreams. The writers in this anthology--"the faculty and staff of American River College's Creative Writing Program"--describe a city as compelling and mysterious any capital I have ever visited. I am lost in my hometown. I can stop as long as I put away any thought of maps.
--Richard Rodriguez, author of HUNGER OF MEMORY
Language
English
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Ad Lumen Press
Release
April 01, 2013

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