by BlogEditor | Apr 15, 2018 | Blog, The Keeping Room
By Alyssa Harmon the cool breeze asking so politely to see what’s under her dress the gust of angry wind who thinks he’s entitled to the skin underneath *** Alyssa Harmon Alyssa Harmon is a junior at the University of South...
by BlogEditor | Apr 5, 2018 | Blog, The Keeping Room
By Emily Shearer, Poetry Editor, Minerva Rising Press “It was a changeling season,” writes Rita Banerjee in “Atlantis,” just one of the many wholly immersive and well-knit poems that form her newest collection, Echo in Four Beats, released last month...
by BlogEditor | Mar 29, 2018 | Poetry2, The Keeping Room
By Ashley Gonzalez Light trickles through cracked walls, dancing with dim shadows over dusty floors. My eyes follow follow follow, Spirit hollow hollow hollow, cleared out years ago by cold hearted foes and rows with Self and Other. Lovers of mine...
by BlogEditor | Mar 1, 2018 | Poetry2, The Keeping Room
By Sophia Kiang This has been a circularly beautiful night. We parked in the power plant and Jesus and Mary were waiting for us, so close. Switching gas stations, red light district leather, full of love for the ways that you lie. Soon I would be...
by Kim Brown | Sep 26, 2017 | Staff Blog, The Keeping Room
When someone asks how long Minerva Rising has been around, I always say it started in January of 2012. But the idea was planted a year earlier. I was sitting in my keeping room in January, reading Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change...
by Kim Brown | Jul 27, 2017 | Poetry2, The Keeping Room
Reviewed by Emily Shearer We grow through uncertainty and the urge to keep moving to keep ourselves whole perhaps to discover we might be driven by reasons neither noble nor true. Yet the unknown opens prospects; and while clarity may ensue, it’s the...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Mar 31, 2016 | The Keeping Room
It was the summer of 1972. At the time I lived with my parents on a modest 110-acre dairy farm. Imagine a white clapboard farmhouse with a front porch, a weathered gray barn, pastures abuzz with grasshoppers, and black-and-white cows slurping water out of a...
by Emily Shearer | Mar 28, 2016 | Staff Blog, Uncategorized
I’m learning a new language. The structure of Czech is entirely different from English; meaning is contained in word order and declination, so that just by changing endings on the same root word, you can create whole new sentences. The possibilities the syntax...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Mar 25, 2016 | The Keeping Room
Which woman most influenced my creative life? First, I think of Virginia Woolf, then Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Roosevelt and Betty Friedan. What about Tillie Olsen? Surely, Sylvia Plath or Adrienne Rich. Rearrange them in whichever order you wish. It...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Mar 23, 2016 | The Keeping Room
Every time I sit to write a poem, essay, or even a journal entry, I sense the collective muse of women from the past, whose courage and vision allowed my generation of women the luxury and privilege of putting our pens to paper. From the Suffragists to the...
