“I Give You Back”– “I release you, my beautiful and terrible fear / I release you …. I am not afraid to be angry / I am not afraid to rejoice …”–Joy Harjo I’ve been known to be angry. I react. And, no I’m not bi-polar as some have labeled …
Dear Kandace,* Your latest post has gotten me to ponder my own “collective” musings. Including some quips regarding my most recent experience of buying and renovating an “as is” townhome I call t-Rex. I had given away almost all of my thrifted and gifted furnishings, art, etc. from my previous …
Contributors to How Dare We! Write read their own works! “This book turned out to be unlike any writing reference book I have read. Of the thirty-odd writing books in my collection, many have spoken to my identity as one who loves the written word, as a recovering perfectionist, as …
WHAT MATTERS TO ME IS STORY It’s been six months since my memoir in verse, Septuagenarian, debuted. I think about this as another Minnesota poet, and another, and another has released another book of poems. I think about how different our voices are. How different our techniques. I am less …
