Back in January, I wrote about Jane Hirshfield’s approach to revision. In their book The Poet’s Companion, poets Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux reprinted Hirshfield’s list of Possible Questions to Ask of Your Poem in Revision. This document...
Meet Erin Elizabeth Smith. To shake hands with this sassafras, bad-ass, Southern-fine chicken rancher/ college professor/ Sundress Academy for the Arts director/ Managing Editor of Sundress Publications and The Wardrobe AND Minerva Rising’s 2016 Poetry Chapbook...
Here’s a twist. Since I’m always reading and editing YOUR poetry, how’s about you edit mine this time? Here’s a rough, rough draft of a long poem I scribbled down last night around 2 am. To give you a little backstory: I live in the Czech...
Sometime after the heat of singlehandedly dissolving the heart of the iceberg and before the dream of a black man hit by a train in an all-white city, epiphany let herself enter through my midnight window, settled on my windowsill, welcome and messy as an unexpected...
After urgency by Rusty Morrison How to draw the constantly shifting selves together around an object of scrutiny and let this simply be the way that it’s raining again outside, so lightly, hardly more than fog, so that I leave behind my umbrella, open the...
