It’s not on the stands yet, but another of the motherhood/fairy stories I’ve been working for the past little bit (uh, doesn’t she mean the past five years?) will be in the Fall, 2009 issue of Brain, Child. I love Brain, Child. And not just because they publish fiction along with personal essays and nonfictionContinue reading “The Written Word”
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The Written Word
Just received word that my poem “Hill Country Fossils” will appear in an upcoming issue of Southwest Review. And just a couple of weeks ago, I opined thusly about the merits of writing poetry over fiction: How freeing it would be … to write without the words needing to earn their keep…. How freeingContinue reading “The Written Word”
Rolling in Clover; or Luck, and Where to Find it
The more common variant of the saying being like pigs in clover — but let’s not go that far. But if I had some magic elixir bottled up that could whisk me back to childhood, it would consist of a distillation, an inhalation of the following: …The scent of the pinpoint-sized white flowers of aContinue reading “Rolling in Clover; or Luck, and Where to Find it”