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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
