by Minerva Rising Contributor | Aug 8, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
“The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.” I can think of no better description of my writing process than this quote by Michelangelo. If I have...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Aug 1, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Your recent prompt for blog entries about art struck me for the number of ways it matched my thought process while writing my poem, “Perspectives.” When my daughter, Kailey, sent me this yoga selfie, I was transfixed by the difficulty of any person finding the point...
by Emily Shearer | Jul 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
Hammock To a kitchen, to a jungle To sanctum, to circus As I rock in my hammock and smell the warm bananas baking with the butter and the wheat, Smell the fecund river teeming with piranhas and leeches and snakes the girth of a strong man. Rocked, in...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jul 25, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Being a dog owner has proved to be one of the most challenging, but extraordinary experiences of my life. When I was lodged in the mud of a toxic relationship, I decided to get a puppy. Ruckus (his all-too-fitting name) became my very best friend in a way that other...
by minervarising | Jul 21, 2014 | Blog, Staff Blog
One of my oldest friends, who’s not a writer, recently said to me, “I think you need to move on in your work.” Move on, she means, from writing about pregnancies, babies born premature, NICU stays — poems reverberating with the despair of a new...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jul 18, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
In a few weeks, my husband, daughter and I will move out of the yellow house across from the public library, a house that has been in his family for 75 years. Daisy, now 18, was 2 years old when she nestled into the same bedroom in which her grandmother spent her...
by Kim Brown | Jul 15, 2014 | Staff Blog
I spent last week at the beach. My plan was to do a bunch writing and read several books. The writing would happen in the quiet of the morning while the rest of my family slept and I’d read on the beach. Even as we packed the car, I wondered if my two bags full of...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
In the dark night of my habits, when sleep avoids me like a troublesome child, I find my life has become a series of other people’s requests, demands, interests and needs. Surely, it’s my fault, all mine, to have put myself on the lowest shelf, deep behind the...
by Michelle Orr | Jul 8, 2014 | Blog, Staff Blog
While this day is a celebration of the birth of our nation, I think it’s also a day to reflect and, of course, celebrate what makes the U.S. of A such a great nation. I appreciate all the women writers, poets, photographers, painters–artists–who dare to...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jul 4, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Image: Kurt Vonnegut is one of the many writers from Indiana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Writers_from_Indiana Writing retreats can be expensive and difficult to schedule. How can busy parent-writers arrange to attend a reasonably priced writing retreat when...
