by Courtney Kampa Ust Kamenogorsk, The video was soft and grainy as an ultrasound: 11 seconds of a caretaker holding a baby girl up by the armpits like a potted plant. When […]
Poems About Grace, by Courtney Kampa
Please shut up: Why self-promotion as an author doesn’t work.
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 […]
“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 […]
Diary of a Writer’s Week
March 23—I wake up in the middle of the night coughing (Florida=allergies), and get up to use the bathroom and get a drink of water. When I lie down again, I am […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“Magic Tricks for Puppies”
These are some word-love-related excerpts from my manuscript BORDERLAND: A DOG, A LOVE, A DOUBLE-HELIX (or I might call the book AWESOME DOG, not sure). Anyway, the passages come late the book, from […]
Laugh Along With Us–More Air Times for The Gloria Sirens
If you missed us, we’re on Life Improvement Radio again today at 1:55 PM 5:09 PM and 11:27 PM. Hear Katie Riegel, Susan Lilley, Suzannah Gilman, Tiffany Razzano, and I discuss contemporary issues […]
We Blew the Fuse at Life Improvement Radio!
When it came time to air our show, Life Improvement Radio suffered a “power outage.” Or was it a “power outrage?” We’ll keep you posted when they finally muster enough wattage.
