by Delilah S. Dawson Let’s talk about marketing, shall we? It’s 2012. I’m sitting at a table in the front of the room, a microphone poised to capture my every word. At […]
Please shut up: Why self-promotion as an author doesn’t work.
Lisa Lanser Rose
I'm Trick Dog Trainer and the author two books, the memoir, For the Love of a Dog, (Harmony Books), and the novel, Body Sharers (Rutgers University Press). My work is represented by Birch Literary Agency. Body Sharers placed among the finalists for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for Best First Novel. Recent honors include finalist for the 2017 Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, winner of the 2016 Briar Cliff Review Nonfiction Award, winner of the 2013 Florida Review Editor’s Award, and a Best American Essays 2015 Notable Essay. My dogs moonwalk throughout the Tampa Bay area.
“The Descent of the Germanwings”– a poem
Download audio file (HammonsDescent.mp3) by Chera Hammons THE DESCENT OF THE GERMANWINGS Musicians know how to write silence, how to lay lines and measures across a white landscape, to show where music […]
Shame and Survival–Monica Lewinsky on the Culture of Humiliation
by Monica Lewinsky “How does it feel to be America’s premier blow-job queen?” It was early 2001. I was sitting on the stage of New York’s Cooper Union in the middle of […]
Sorry, Babe, You’re a Feminist
“I wouldn’t go so far as to say I’m a feminist.” Carrie Underwood “I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist.” Kelly Clarkson “I am not a feminist.” Katy Perry “I have never really thought […]
Why Don’t Men Read Books By Women?
by Chloe Angyal Read this article and more at Feministing I made a pledge at the beginning of 2015. This year, I’m only reading books by women. I borrowed this pledge from Lilit […]
This woman just explained consent with the most perfect metaphor
Okay. What about those men who really do believe if they just pressure you to drink the tea, you’ll thank them later? If only you’d taste it! You must want it as much as they want […]
“I Have This Fantasy,” a poem
by Heather Bell I have this fantasy that I am dressed in a leather jacket smoking a cigar just standing there holding Kafka or Adrienne Rich by the spine when an old […]
“Stardust,” a poem
by Colette Tennant I don’t like it when scientists call me a carbon-based life form it makes me sound like a pencil smudge on my writing finger a really bad child at Christmas […]
Saturday, February 21at 4:00pm–Grand Central Lit Crawl
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Join me and local writers Lynn Waddell, Heather Jones,Austin Collins, Erika Lance, and Sheree L Greer for the Grand Central Lit Crawl. It’s a literary take on the classic bar…
“Belief”
by Marilyn Robertson On the way to the post office this morning, I thought about the odd things we believe. Things we swear by, pray to, put our trust in, or wear […]
The Gloria Sirens 