Hi there! I’m offering this one-day poetry writing workshop next month, and I am super-excited about it. If you are going to be in the Worcester, MA area and you’re interested in attending, please register by clicking on the “Register here!” under “Information” in the newsletter. Also, I’m presenting a paper next week on Thursday, … Continue reading
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Interview & Virtual Reading Up @ Niche Lit Magazine!
I am really excited that my poem, “Milepost 350, 2:33 AM” is up as a virtual reading at Niche Lit Magazine . Founding and managing editor, Katya Cummins also interviewed me. There is some fantastic work at their site– go read! It’s a beautifully designed online journal that is truly “limitless.” PS: Reading Life post coming … Continue reading
“The Winter Bees” Up at The Heron Tree
I am very happy and excited that my poem, “The Winter Bees,” is up and active on The Heron Tree. There is some wonderfully talented poets on their site– lots to enjoy, and I am thrilled to be a part of it! Continue reading
2 Poems Up at Radius Lit
Big thank you to the editors at RadiusLit.org for publishing my two response poems, “The Ellen Jamesian is a Mermaid” and “Sestina Lot #41994.” I am thrilled! Continue reading
“The Joy is in the doing.” On Seeing Shakespeare’s First Folio
On Friday, May 27th I worked for a few hours then drove to Amherst, Massachusetts to visit the Mead Museum at Amherst College to see one of William Shakespeare’s First Folio’s. The Folger Shakespeare Library is celebrating “The Wonder of Will – 400 Years of Shakespeare” by bringing a First Folio to each of the … Continue reading
An Abbreviated Universe of “I want”: A Reflection
And here I am, nearing the end of what has become the greater part of my life and I do not think preparation is possible. For me, life in the classroom, not as a teacher, but student, is time that belongs to me, unshared except for the pleasure of discussion with other like-minded individuals willing … Continue reading
Reading Life: Responding to the Eye in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
Note: I originally wrote this piece for my U.S. Studies in Ethnic Lit. course. It was such a pleasure to write reader response pieces. This was my second reading of Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and it was wonderful! A hurricane is a brutal, destructive force of nature that, much like love can be a deceiving … Continue reading
“He is the fly in the ointment, the crack in the lens, the virus in the data.” Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, Masterpiece Mystery on WGBH
SPOILER ALERT!! Tonight’s Sherlock Special, The Abominable Bride takes us back in time to 1895. The show opens with Watson’s narration and flashback to his time in war, and quickly speeds through a re-creation of the contemporary scenes from Sherlock, episode 1: Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) whipping a dead body (more than ever); Watson (Martin Freeman) introduced … Continue reading
On Nightmares & Memory
The shocking discovery that you wake from a bad dream and your body is still, unmovable. The frightening realization that even in your forties you still experience a recurring horror from your childhood, a representation of the boogeyman. Sometimes it is just a voice, a cajoling, indecipherable vociferation; it startles you awake, forcing your body … Continue reading
Thrilling Women Writers: Dark Places; Shirley
My summer reading has been quite exciting this summer. After reading Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl I immediately picked up Dark Places, which was also adapted for the screen starring Christina Hendricks. Dark Places is an intense novel about a young woman named Libby Day who is the sole survivor of slaughter. During what I deem a home invasion scenario, … Continue reading
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