by BlogEditor | Apr 28, 2022 | Minerva's Dispatch, News & Events
MINERVA’S DISPATCH: April News FollowFollowFollow Chapbook Contest Winner Congratulations to Hannah Yerington on winning the 2022 Dare to Be Chapbook Contest! Her chapbook, Sheologies, begins with a folktale of a world where lagoons speak, flowers pray, and...
by BlogEditor | Apr 28, 2022 | Book Reviews
Kids in America by Liz Prato FollowFollowFollow Kids in America: Essays on Gen Xby Liz Prato Santa Fe Writers Project (June 2022Paperback, 210 pagesISBN-10: 1951631250ISBN-13: 978-1951631253 Book Review by Rebecca Beardsall Opening with a quote from the Class of 1984...
by BlogEditor | Apr 25, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
Losing Art An excerpt from LOSING ART, a memoir by Patricia Feinman FollowFollowFollow I got as close to Art as I could, resting one arm on either side of him, without letting any of my weight lean on his emaciated body. I looked into his face. It’s okay, my love, I...
by BlogEditor | Apr 22, 2022 | Fiction
Fat Girl In Crowded Room by Erica W. Jamieson FollowFollowFollow I should stand, right? And just start talking? Okay, then. I’m Emily. I should tell you it’s not my first time in group. I mean I’ve been before, a long time ago, in a group, like this. And, well, now...
by BlogEditor | Apr 5, 2022 | Book Reviews
Stargazing in Solitude by Suzanne Samples FollowFollowFollow Stargazing in Solitude by Suzanne Samples, Ph.D. Running Wild PressDecember, 2021Paperback, 337 pagesISBN-10: 1947041924 Book Review by Amanda Morris A book that begins with the preface “Spoiler alert: I’m...
by BlogEditor | Mar 17, 2022 | Poetry
Wizening by Jennifer Weiss FollowFollowFollow When my gnarled toes graze a desolate bedand I stow away your time-frayed pillowcase,may I remember: The trace of your fingers that unraveled me.The rubescent communion of our lips.The bliss when I nuzzled the cleft of...
by BlogEditor | Mar 4, 2022 | Fiction
Jailbait by Rachel Christina McConnell FollowFollowFollow Virginia is for lovers, his license plate said, but I sure as hell wasn’t losing my virginity in the backseat of his car. My first time was in a Motel 6. Getting a room was my idea. I thought it was sexy....
by BlogEditor | Mar 3, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
Weight of a Thousand Flowers by Linda Petrucelli FollowFollowFollow “I can see myself living here for a very long time,” I told the realtor, my fingers trembling as I signed for the rundown rancher with a great view. I surprised myself. Long-term commitment was unlike...
by BlogEditor | Feb 22, 2022 | Book Reviews
Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares by Aarti Namdev Shahani FollowFollowFollow Here We Are: American Dreams, American NightmaresBy Aarti Namdev Shahani Celadon Books, New York, 2019$16.99, PaperbackISBN 9781250204745 Book Review by Ankita Rathour In...
by BlogEditor | Feb 22, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
The Earthquake and my Brain By Domnica Radulescu FollowFollowFollow Time has been a long formless dough stretching from one end of the world to another, the days all mashed up into this mushy paste, Monday Sunday Thursday Monday all over again, it could be March it...
