by Minerva Rising Contributor | May 9, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
The phone rings, my mother. The cancer has returned, stage four. My cellphone vibrates, a text from my sister. Have you talked to mom? After two lengthy and direct conversations, I convince my mom to consider other treatment facilities. Three days later she agrees. I...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | May 3, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” No, Juliet, I disagree. The rolling R, the long, open O ready for surrender, the soft, sensual S. Names have power. In biblical myth, Adam’s first order of business included naming the flora, the fauna, and oh, yes, his...
by Kim Brown | Apr 22, 2014 | Staff Blog
This past weekend, New York Times best-selling author, Karen White and Minerva Rising contributor (Issue 2) Rona Simmons, shared their personal writing process with the members of the Atlanta Writers club. Rona started her talk by mentioning both Stephen King’s On...
by minervarising | Apr 18, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Tomorrow it will all end and begin again. Tomorrow I will meet him in the city to sign the papers to end our marriage. Not long enough in my book of second chances when I hoped that this one would endure for the rest of my life. Hah, there will be no third chance. I...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Apr 11, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Sure, I had the same jeans before pregnancy, but post-pregnancy, they somehow look like ‘mom jeans’. And I wore them to AWP in Seattle. Amidst the tattoos, long beards, and “ugly” sweaters (I’m pretty sure they were being worn with ironic quotations around them), I...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Apr 4, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
On this journey called a lifetime, courage goes hand-in-hand with fear. In my late-thirties, I was offered a career move to a major city . My son was in his pre-teens and testing the boundaries of our relationship. His dad, from whom I was divorced, lived nearby and...
by Kim Brown | Mar 31, 2014 | Staff Blog
Chelsey Clammer has been selected to receive the Owl of Minerva Award for 2014. Chelsey Clammer is currently enrolled in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program. She is organizing a women’s writing retreat that will take place in a cabin in the middle...
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...
