by Emily Shearer | May 30, 2014 | Poetry2, Staff Blog, Uncategorized
Breathe in oxygen./ Breathe out poetry. -Muriel Rukeyser Breathe out peace, breathe out fullness, breathe out impressions, breathe out truth. . . . But what happens when you have exhaled and exhaled and emptied yourself and there are just. no. words. left?? What...
by Emily Shearer | May 19, 2014 | Blog, Staff Blog
When two things are touching, says my fourteen-year-old, the expert scientist, who is not quite an expert yet, by nature of his fourteen-year-oldness, they’re not really touching. Between skin on skin, folds of paper, words & silence, ink & white, between...
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 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 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...
