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Read. We are not alone. Writers are our teachers. 
As you read, notice how a book is structured. 
Examine the writer's mind. 
If you want to deepen your writing, 
read widely and often.
The Book of Delights - Ross Gay

The Five Wounds - Kirsten Valdez Quade

Late Migrations - Margaret Renkl


The Beautiful Struggle: a memoir - Ta-Nehisi Coates

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- a memoir - Maya Angelou

Words Under The Words, selected poems - Naomi Shihab Nye

Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin

How We Became Human, new and selected poems - Joy Harjo

Loon: A Marine Story - Jack McLean 

This is the Story of a Happy Marriage - Ann Patchett

Erosion - Essays of Undoing - Terry Tempest Williams

Homebird: Four Seasons on Martha's Vineyard -Laura Wainwright

When Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather

Hour of Land - Terry Tempest Williams
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