by Emily Shearer | Nov 17, 2014 | Blog, Staff Blog
CREATING OURSELVES AS WORKS OF ART – or – Telling the Mental Monkey-Bullies to Go Suck Eggs Have you ever read something so fan-DAMN-tastic that you thought to yourself, Well, Self, that’s it. Hang up your hat because you will never write anything that...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Nov 14, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
First sip of coffee in the morning; going to bed knowing I can drink another cup of coffee tomorrow. Saying, “Look at the sunset” to my son and watching him turn his head. Popeye’s fried chicken for dinner (from a busy location, of course, with particularly crispy...
by minervarising | Nov 10, 2014 | Blog, Staff Blog
My dear poets, You still have time to send us your wonderfully crafted chapbook manuscripts for Minerva Rising’s “Dare to Be” chapbook contest judged by the poet Heather McHugh. I’ve written three poetry chapbooks and have learned some lessons...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Nov 7, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
My family is from diets. The lips, the jaws, the tongue of diets. My entire childhood was passed through the stomach of listening to my family go from one diet to the next. It was searching for The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Holy Grail or Indiana Jones and the lost...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Oct 31, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
So many hungers in me. A gorge rimmed red with teeth howls from in my bowels. Ready to suck in and mash, tear limb from limb, the frailest offering, a bonbon. Clamp down with the weight and forgivelessness of … life. Chew and chew and chew and spew out the bits...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Oct 24, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
If you noticed the Halloween candy for sale in August, you know it has been the “holiday season” for some time. But now it is really the holiday season. All of the winter spices and root vegetables, not to mention desserts, will bring back memories. Use these scents...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Oct 17, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
I made beef stew on a Wednesday because it is my daughter’s favorite and she’s had some mean girl trouble at school. When she was in preschool I used to bring pink-frosted Magnolia cupcakes for pickup. That led to some whining on the part of other parents but I...
by minervarising | Oct 13, 2014 | Blog, Staff Blog
You: “I just had one of my poems (or short stories or essays) accepted by Well-Known Literary Journal That I’ve Wanted to Get Into Forever!” Note: You told this to your well-meaning family member, friend or co-worker because you literally just got...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Oct 10, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
She sits at the dining room table cluttered with shopping magazines, her only mail except for an occasional bill or health care alert or birthday card. I’ve been camping on a cot in her assisted living apartment since I arrived a few days ago. I open my computer...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Oct 3, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
If music be the food of love, play on…* Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Ah, yes, music is the very soundtrack of love, any love affair has the words to a song, the twist of a particular tune to color its shape, from old love: “Let’s Stay Together… Al Green, to new love: ...
