by Jane Kenyon How long the winter has lasted—like a Mahler symphony, or an hour in the dentist’s chair. In the fields the grasses are matted and gray, making me think of June, […]
Walking Alone in Late Winter
Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
by Ann LaBar “How would you like it if I were dancing with a dead shark?” My five-year-old daughter asks from the back seat. And I remember an old lover who after […]
Why Is It So Hard for Women to Write About Sex?
“But does that mean we experience desire in the same way that men do? My lust tells me we don’t. Mine, I confess, isn’t blind or monumental or animal. It comes with […]
Spring Lament
by Francesca Lia Block this spring is like that man in the white shirt radiating heat even from his thumbs standing so close we steal each other’s air a wedding band glaring […]
“Sexting, Shame, and Suicide”–a Rolling Stone article
I read this article today because a friend posted a link to it on Facebook, quoting a line that at first didn’t seem especially evocative, given the real trauma of this topic: “You […]
Green Heart
GREEN HEART Why do we try to pretend we want anything but to be adored? A professor I loved confessed he started writing poems to get women, like wearing a tattoo revealing […]
Homme de Plume: Men in Print
About a year ago I got an email from Wag’s Revue breaking the news that I didn’t win their contest. I did what I always do when I get rejected: I forwarded the email […]
Things Women Writers are Sick of Hearing, or We Haven’t Come Far Enough, Baby
Reposted from Buzzfeed. What did women writers at AWP get tired of hearing? Here’s a quick visual check-in from Buzzfeed that might make you question exactly where we are in history. […]
Mindful Romance
Originally posted on The Manifesto:
I read this article, re-posted by a friend. I didn’t listen to the podcasts and such, I admit. It seemed like a sweet, hopeful article, and far…
Lifelong Learning
By Julia Connolly When I signed up for the class through the college’s lifelong learning program I didn’t realize I’d be the baby of the group. To a person, every other member […]
