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I'm Anya Achtenberg, novelist, poet, teacher, and writer’s consultant. This newsletter holds my organic approach to writing craft with the power to counter historical amnesia.
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September 11: “By 1740, one in every six New Yorkers was owned by another New Yorker” (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowBelow is old poem written not long after 9/11. It is painful yet heartening to see many more stories of people come forward including of so many immigrants who died that day, or survived and lost dear ones. For many reasons, through many circumstances, the generations and journeys, even the names, of my ancestors have disappeared, and I’ve been acutely conscious that in such cataclysms, such horrors that devour the existence of so many--many people are dou
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