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 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...
