Do you feel that your writing is assumed to be autobiographical? How do you feel about this assumption? Does memoir play a role in your...
Archive for tag: grief
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Isobel O’Hare
What’s the earliest experience, or a stand-out experience you can remember that made you realize that you can be yourself, write as yourself, and write...
Living in Liminality: Working with the Wounds of Trauma through Altered States & Poison Medicine
Adapted from a keynote given at the 2018 Transformative Language Arts Network Power of Words Conference +++ What is the center what is the center...
Dung-Aw: Conveying the Poetry of Grief
For writers with the gift of more than one language, what kinds of sounds are we able to make when grieving? From living in this...
Report from the Field: The Poet as Beginning Mother
It was October and I was thirteen. On the bright car ride home from school, my dad told me my older brother Will had died....
Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Rachel Eliza Griffiths
What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? I’m rereading...
The House With Feet: The Dire Importance of Ruth Stone’s Bequest
“Who are the women who brought my great-grandmother tea and straightened her bed? As anemone in midsummer, the air cannot find them and grandmother’s been...