by Lindsey Grudnicki | May 20, 2015 | Staff Picks
A Review by Lindsey and Emily, Editors of Minerva Rising Through her twenty-one poems that reticulate like stepping stones on a snaky garden path, Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick guides her readers through one woman’s version of Gethsemane. Amid vivid images of lush...
by Kim Brown | May 18, 2015 | Staff Blog
The beach has been calling me. I need the walks by the water, the reflection and the renewal. But I’m not up to the six hour drive it takes to get there. Consequently, I’ve been thinking a lot about ways to create that beach tranquility closer to home. My first...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | May 15, 2015 | Blog, Poetry2, The Keeping Room
Mother, may I go to him, my brother slave to the needled beast Mother, may I love him the way you never did Mother, may I rest his broken heart at your feet Mother may you mend that heart, shattered and addled, for the weary lot of us...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | May 9, 2015 | Blog, The Keeping Room
The small high desert cemetery perched lonely and dry on a forgotten rise past the outskirts of a town that chose to grow in a different direction. The tombstone had reduced the lifetime of this woman’s struggles and joys to her name, dates, and one word—Mother. When...
by Emily Shearer | Apr 28, 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 umbrella, open the...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Apr 24, 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) *** My town of Great Barrington,...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Apr 17, 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 Thrill Is Gone Collapsing...
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 ...
