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...
by Michelle Orr | Jun 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
Two White Beds by Laura Cherry Maya Angelou said “I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity, is daring to dare.” Winner of Minerva Rising’s inaugural chapbook contest, “Two White Beds” is a collection of poetry that dares. It...
by Emily Shearer | Jun 30, 2014 | Issues, Staff Blog, Uncategorized
In case you haven’t heard, Minerva Rising’s fifth issue, “Turning Points” is out. I’m so proud of the poets in this issue. With poems like “Sunday”, “true story about lake & loss”, and “What the Apple...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jun 27, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
A long, long time ago, when I was in my 20s, in grad school, and then living in Paris, I tried for a while to publish my short stories, poems, essays and one academic paper on the grotesque that my professor thought worthy. (I gave up on the research paper after five...
by minervarising | Jun 23, 2014 | Staff Blog
Here’s a peek inside my early introduction to poetry: I came across Tennyson’s collected works, an 1880s copy in a used bookstore when I was 15. I took it home and started reading voraciously – I loved the imagery of “The Lady of Shalott”: Out flew the web and floated...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jun 20, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
I teach memoir, but I mostly write poetry. This works well because of the inherent prose lessons in poetry concerning concision, sound, voice, facts and even plot. Concision & Precision: Poetry is usually* more concise than prose. (*Of course there are prose poems...
by Kim Brown | Jun 17, 2014 | Blog, Staff Blog
Last night, before I went to bed, I mentally planned my writing week. I’d start by rewriting a piece I wrote about Raymond Chandler’s quote: “ The faster I write the better my output. If I’m going slow, I’m in trouble. It means I’m pushing the words instead of being...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jun 13, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
One day, summers ago, I saw my physical duplicate crossing a quiet side street in small town Michigan. A visit “home,” I was driving somewhere to somewhere else, a nondescript errand in a place often defined by them, I stopped at an unnecessary stoplight,...
by minervarising | Jun 12, 2014 | Issues
ISSUE 5: Turning Points This issue of Minerva Rising is full of stories of hope and of that elucidating point of turning to the deep intuition at the core of one’s self. “Learning to Let Go” chronicles the journey of a woman who rediscovers life after the death of her...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jun 6, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
This weekend I am on the North Carolina coast with women who attended the last Women’s Creative Writing and Yoga Retreat in Oaxaca, Mexico. We look east over the Atlantic Ocean, hear the lull of waves, write, share meals, tell life stories, sip good Oaxaca mezcal,...
