by Shannon Turner | Mar 7, 2017 | Blog
I wrote this poem in winter 2010 after visiting Jo Carson while she was enduring cancer. Jo was a great mentor to me in my writing and storytelling. She passed away in September 2011. *Twin Trees Falling in Tandem & Not Hitting Al’s Roof You in your kerchief...
by Shannon Turner | Mar 5, 2017 | Blog
Lately, I’ve been doing a little light reading on chaos theory thanks to a conversation with one of my mentors, Doug Lipman. A concept within chaos theory is retrospective coherence, which is that, when complex systems are in a change state, just before they...
by Shannon Turner | Feb 20, 2017 | Blog
What was that ending?She called me up,accusing,as though I’d written it myself.I don’t understand it.Everyone’s been talking about this film for months,and I finally get to goand that’s how it ends?I sit there silently for a moment or two,not...
by Shannon Turner | Feb 19, 2017 | Blog
What was that ending? She called me up, accusing, as though I’d written it myself. I don’t understand it. Everyone’s been talking about this film for months, and I finally get to go and that’s how it ends? I sit there silently for a moment or...
by Shannon Turner | Feb 13, 2017 | Blog
I remember so clearly how it started. I was 17; it was the spring of my senior year. I was a “good girl,” but I had these friends in high school who all smoked. We would go out after school and sit at Pal’s on the concrete slab patio tables, drinking...
by Shannon Turner | Feb 10, 2017 | Blog
Sometime in the month of December I got an email from a colleague with the subject line: “Storytelling is Important.” I knew that. I knew my friend already knew that. I was curious what this was about, especially as it’s not standard to put a subject...
