Loren Niemi
Fortuitous
As the Founder of the American School of Storytelling I have been asked what exactly is your vision for the school? My answer is the...
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Loren Niemi
- Oct 27
- 5 min
A Birthday Review
Today marks my 75th birthday. If you will indulge me, I’ll make a few observations on my life so far and my intentions going forward. If...
Loren Niemi
- Sep 22
- 6 min
Books and Book Fairs
The highlight of my summer has been Calumet Edition’s publication of my poetic memoir - “A Breviary for the Lost” – which explores the...
Loren Niemi
- Sep 2
- 4 min
Back to... Books
I see that I have been neglectful of blog posts this summer. July and August seemed to race by with their own crisis or pleasures and now...
Loren Niemi
- Jun 21
- 6 min
Heat and Light
The predicted high for today is 95 and humid. Yesterday it was 101 and felt like it. Welcome to summer, and what, in the climate collapse...
Loren Niemi
- May 9
- 4 min
The Audience in the Room
I see that I missed an April post. Perhaps that can be forgiven as the last 12 days of April were spent “on the road.” with performances...
Loren Niemi
- Mar 20
- 8 min
These Three....
My Face Book memories offered up a post from Colleen Kruse from this date in 2019, asking if it was time for us to do another performance...
Loren Niemi
- Feb 19
- 3 min
Thoughts on Men in Traditional Stories
In my book Point of View and the Emotional Arc of Stories (co-authored with Nancy Donoval and published by Parkhurst Brothers) I point...
Loren Niemi
- Jan 21
- 3 min
Bits and Pieces in the Semblance of a Whole
The new year starts awkwardly. I will admit that I am disappointed that January’s “Long Form Story” class did not go. I am a little...
Loren Niemi
- Dec 22, 2021
- 7 min
Sometimes the Darkness...
Sometimes the darkness overwhelms us. And I mean us, plural, as well as myself singular. This winter solstice it feels particularly thick...
Loren Niemi
- Nov 23, 2021
- 6 min
A list
Last night I got a message that Robert Bly has passed through the veil. I was at a loss for words but in my silence I heard his voice....
Loren Niemi
- Sep 27, 2021
- 7 min
Arrival
My arrival in Albuquerque coincided with the fall Equinox. It is fitting, I suppose, to begin a new season in a “new” place though this...
Loren Niemi
- Aug 25, 2021
- 5 min
The Thinking Behind a Little Video
I've been thinking a lot about America in a time of Covid and the rise of the Delta variant. Over the month of August, I’ve posted about...
Loren Niemi
- Jul 6, 2021
- 1 min
A "long-short story"
The Write Launch has just published on-line one of my "literary" stories - "Chattanooga" - a dizzy dive into the cosmology of Bad Jazz as...
Loren Niemi
- Jun 23, 2021
- 6 min
The Summer of '81
On this day after the Summer Solstice, I have been thinking about summer’s past: the summer of ’71 when I was one of six guys working at...
Loren Niemi
- Jun 8, 2021
- 2 min
Announcing two Swell Opportunities
I’ll admit that this is a belated post. Just as what should have come in April arrived on the blog doorstep May1st. this one seems to...
Loren Niemi
- May 1, 2021
- 3 min
Looking for Work
Here is the quandary that the pandemic year has brought me to: the rhythm of performances balanced against or within teaching has been...
Loren Niemi
- Mar 21, 2021
- 11 min
A Year Passes
For many years, proximity to the Spring Equinox meant I was on the road. Touring the East Coast or Midwest, Hanging with my extended...
Loren Niemi
- Mar 1, 2021
- 3 min
In Anticipation of March Madness
Coming in March: Tuesday, the 9th, 7:00 PM Central - I'm in conversation with the prolific Jack Zipes about modern storytelling for Story...
Loren Niemi
- Feb 1, 2021
- 3 min
Three Things
There are few hours left in January. Not that it makes much difference to you, the reader, but for my promise to myself to post a blog...