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,...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Feb 6, 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. *** All I need is a blue sky, azure and bright, to ease my mind, reassure...
by minervarising | Feb 2, 2015 | Blog, Staff Blog
In January, we asked Minerva Rising contributors what comforts them, or conversely, what they removed from their lives, what’s made them uncomfortable. I decided to make my own short list of what comforts me, to join in: * That I could name your mind everywhere...
by Emily Shearer | Jan 30, 2015 | Poetry2, Staff Blog
Think carefully about that word — re-vision. When you set out to revise a piece, if you open yourself to what the piece is trying to say to you, the process becomes about so much more than what Natalie Goldberg calls “pencil work.” Get past the...
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