Time Stands Still for U.S. Writer in Ireland
The author, at far left, in Listowel with fellow writers, poets, playwrights and storytellers - This piece was originally published in The San Francisco Gael in September 1992. The clock in the tower of St. John’s in the town square read nine minutes to seven when I arrived in Listowel from San Francisco for Writers’ Week. Through long, dense days of meeting other writers and critiquing their work, singing ballads for which I did not know the words with new friends in pubs, a