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 ...
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,...
