Author Spotlight: Samantha Edmonds

On the choose-your-own-adventure style and the “breakdown of control”   Samantha Edmonds is featured as one of the all-star contributors in the inaugural issue of the SFWP Annual, a new release from the Santa Fe Writers Project whose debut on October 1 in...

Culture Rant: Issue 9 / Spring 2017

To Be a Real Writer: Privileged Writing Advice By Monica Prince   A few weeks ago, Parrish Wilson, who hosts the Writing Vibes online writing group, posed an interesting question to the group, one that I’ve heard many an MFA ask a visiting writer: how often do...

Motherhood as Existence in All We Can Hold (collection)

All We Can Hold: Poems of Motherhood, edited by Elise Gregory, Emily Gwinn, Kaleen McCandless, Kate Maude, and Laura Walker   All We Can Hold: Poems of Motherhood Editors: Elise Gregory, Emily Gwinn, Kaleen McCandless, Kate Maude, and Laura Walker Sage Hill...

Trading Insults for Healing in “The Dozen” by Casey Rocheteau

Review: The Dozen by Casey Rocheteau   The Dozen Author: Casey Rocheteau Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016 ISBN: 978-1-943977-10-9 $16.95 Five books in my lifetime have made me throw them across the room while still reading them: Jericho Brown’s Please, Junot Diaz’s...

Review: Pepper Girl by Jonterri Gadson

Pepper Girl Author: Jonterri Gadson YesYes Books, 2012 IBSN: 978-1-936919-10-9 $12.00   Sipping Espresso with Pepper Girl “To all the men I’ve loved before: // Keep the poems.” Jonterri Gadson’s Pepper Girl walks us through an understanding of the self as a woman...