I’ve been rereading May Sarton’s powerful Journal of a Solitude, and it’s a perfect companion to Minerva Rising’s upcoming Issue 7: Wilderness, which you can submit to now. What does the idea of wilderness inspire in you? I think of the vast rooms and spaces in my...
One of my oldest friends, who’s not a writer, recently said to me, “I think you need to move on in your work.” Move on, she means, from writing about pregnancies, babies born premature, NICU stays — poems reverberating with the despair of a new...
Here’s a peek inside my early introduction to poetry: I came across Tennyson’s collected works, an 1880s copy in a used bookstore when I was 15. I took it home and started reading voraciously – I loved the imagery of “The Lady of Shalott”: Out flew the web and floated...
ISSUE 5: Turning Points This issue of Minerva Rising is full of stories of hope and of that elucidating point of turning to the deep intuition at the core of one’s self. “Learning to Let Go” chronicles the journey of a woman who rediscovers life after the death of her...
Tomorrow it will all end and begin again. Tomorrow I will meet him in the city to sign the papers to end our marriage. Not long enough in my book of second chances when I hoped that this one would endure for the rest of my life. Hah, there will be no third chance. I...
