by Minerva Rising Contributor | Apr 10, 2015 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Editor’s note: We asked our contributors to respond to this spring-related prompt: Using the following phrase as a starting point write for 10 minutes without self-editing: “Collapsing under a canopy of green…” (source: The Journal) *** The Promise of a Tree...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Apr 3, 2015 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Editor’s note: We asked our contributors to respond to this spring-related prompt: Using the following phrase as a starting point write for 10 minutes without self-editing: “Collapsing under a canopy of green…” (source: The Journal) *** Shining...
by Emily Shearer | Apr 2, 2015 | Staff Blog, Uncategorized
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 ...
by Lindsey Grudnicki | Apr 1, 2015 | Staff Blog, Staff Picks
Review by Lindsey Grudnicki For the reader, it’s “the vulnerability of letting a story inside” (“Diving In”). For the writer, it’s the vulnerability of letting a story out, of putting your mind and heart and body on the page for a stranger’s eyes. In her debut essay...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Mar 27, 2015 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Editor’s note: Winner of Minerva Rising’s inaugural chapbook contest, Two White Beds by Laura Cherry is a collection of poetry that dares. It tells the story of two young Victorian women, Sam and Millie, who fall in love and must then decide how their stories...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Mar 20, 2015 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Editor’s note: We asked Minerva Rising contributors to respond to this great prompt from PW.org: “January and February can be harsh months for most parts of the world. The wind howls over the frozen ground, through bare branches and near-deserted streets,...
by Emily Shearer | Mar 2, 2015 | Staff Blog, Uncategorized
The blurb at the bottom of Dani Shapiro’s new book, Still Writing describes the book as “A paean to discipline and solitude” – The New York Times If this line had been visible on amazon.com’s image of the book, I might not have ordered...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Feb 27, 2015 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Editor’s note: We asked Minerva Rising contributors to respond to this great prompt from PW.org: “January and February can be harsh months for most parts of the world. The wind howls over the frozen ground, through bare branches and near-deserted streets,...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Feb 20, 2015 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Editor’s note: We asked Minerva Rising contributors to respond to this great prompt from PW.org: “January and February can be harsh months for most parts of the world. The wind howls over the frozen ground, through bare branches and near-deserted streets,...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Feb 13, 2015 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Editor’s note: This month, we asked Minerva Rising contributors: What comforts you? Conversely, what doesn’t comfort you? Tell us what you find solace in, or what you’ve removed from your life. *** Dogs pray, too Cats, not so much, dogs, staggering and sniffing,...
