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Legacy: The Marvelous Arithmetics of the Beautiful Needful Thing: by R. Erica Doyle
On this, the last day of my blogging here, I close at the open (hats off for recognizing my paraphrase): You have enabled yourself to prove of incalculable aid to many, many women—not…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews interviews John Lane of the Hub City Writers Project
(photo (c) Les Butchart) Ed note: John Lane is a naturalist, author, professor of Environmental Literature and Creative Writing at Wofford College, and co-founder of the Hub City Writers Project in Spartanburg, South Carolina…
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At Play in the Syllabic Fields of Alterity: Tamiko Beyer and Susana Baca: R. Erica Doyle
Tamiko Beyer is one of those poets I like to stalk. And she is highly stalkable, appearing here and there, now in an anthology I’m judging, now at a conference, now participating in, organizing,…
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Be Transformed By the Renewing of Your Mind: Monica Hand, Nina Simone, Kalup Lindzy and Imaginary Social Worlds: R. Erica Doyle
I spent much of my early years in a neo-colonial, proto-feminist interior world, managing my various traumas by pretending I was a plucky, white British girl in a secret garden or boarding school lorded…
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Roadside Stand by Charles Simic
In the watermelon and corn season, The earth is a paradise, the morning Is a ripe plum or a plump tomato We bite into as if it were the mouth of a lover. Despite…
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But where are the postcards of summer?
In June, the Academy of American Poets mailed out blank postcards to poets asking them to fill out the space — in any manner they wished — at some time during the summer. The…
