by minervarising | Mar 31, 2014 | Blog, Staff Blog
Q. I really want to start sending some of my poetry out to literary journals to where I might find a home for my work. However, I’m not even really sure where to get started. Any suggestions? A. The wonderful thing is that you have an entire virtual world of literary...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Mar 28, 2014 | Blog, Poetry2, The Keeping Room
When I was a kid there were two pretty extraordinary forces in my life: a book of poems called “A Light in The Attic,” and my older sister. By the time I was eight years old, I was a sullen member of the RIF (reading is fundamental) program. I segregated my worth from...
by Emily Shearer | Mar 26, 2014 | Blog, Staff Blog
98% of the time I think my co-workers at Minerva Rising are brilliant. But then there’s that 2% when they ask me to write about Keeping Your Head On Straight During and After AWP. I am the last person who can tell anybody anything about keeping her head on...
by Kim Brown | Mar 25, 2014 | Staff Blog
The coolest experience as a reader is when the images on the page come alive, leaving an indelible mark on your mind. You are forever changed. The feeling is intensified when it relates to something that you have personally experienced. It is as if the writer has...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Mar 21, 2014 | Blog, Poetry2, The Keeping Room
Today was the day to shovel sky clean snow clean breath sharp to our marrow. We know we will be all right really we will but I remember the story our mother told. The farmer was away when the blizzard struck, the first that winter of many blizzards that buried his...
by Michelle Orr | Mar 17, 2014 | Blog, Photography, Staff Blog
My first AWP…all I can say is wow (and maybe whew)! As the non-writer of Minerva Rising I had no idea what I was in for–the number of writers out there in the world, the variety of writing topics to fill so many panels, the bravery of reading your work to...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Mar 14, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Like many people, I was shocked by the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. In part, I’m sure because we happen to live in the same neighborhood. His son once played in the same Little League as my boy. Not on the same team or the same division, but I’d steal glances at...
by Lindsey Grudnicki | Mar 12, 2014 | Blog, Staff Picks
Reviewed by Lindsey Grudnicki In her memoir Summoning the Mountains, Amy Allen takes the reader by the hand, throws a pack onto her shoulders, and brings her along for quite a journey. Determined to fulfill her dream of hiking the entirety of the Appalachian...
by Emily Shearer | Mar 10, 2014 | Blog, Staff Blog
Recent research has shown that the more you smile, the more you smile. Muscle memory creates pathways and patterns in the 200+ facial muscles summoned up every single time you smile. And chemicals react to those muscles, eliciting feelings of happiness that would...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Mar 7, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
We writers who work full-time at non-writing jobs face countless obstacles in our quest for a few hours of peace and quiet. I’ve come to believe that being an English teacher may be one of the worst jobs of all, as my struggle to read and assess stacks of...
