by Emily Shearer | Mar 26, 2014 | Blog, Staff Blog
98% of the time I think my co-workers at Minerva Rising are brilliant. But then there’s that 2% when they ask me to write about Keeping Your Head On Straight During and After AWP. I am the last person who can tell anybody anything about keeping her head on...
by Emily Shearer | Mar 10, 2014 | Blog, Staff Blog
Recent research has shown that the more you smile, the more you smile. Muscle memory creates pathways and patterns in the 200+ facial muscles summoned up every single time you smile. And chemicals react to those muscles, eliciting feelings of happiness that would...
by Emily Shearer | Nov 18, 2013 | Blog, Poetry2, Staff Blog
I am not a huge fan of the epigraph. You know, those short pieces in italics set off to the right at the top of a poem or in a notes section, there to guide us obtuse readers into the mind of the poet before we get into the meat of the poem. For one thing, the word...
by Emily Shearer | Oct 21, 2013 | Blog, Poetry2, Staff Blog
Emily Waters Shearer Cartography I am a man with a penchant for studying maps and their narratives trapped in the dimension of border and landmark, squiggle of river, brushstroke of shoreline. I quantify canyons and caves with the tools of a surveyor:...
