Reblogged from xoJane.com. It Happened to Me: I Was Slut Shamed in My Wedding Dress by Nina Talley “You know those moments that you really wish you had your wits about you? […]
Slut-Shamed in Her Wedding Dress
“Charlotte Managed” — Praise for Terry Godbey’s “Hold Still.”
by Martin Achatz, an editor at Passages North, “Wilbur admired the way Charlotte managed… “Charlotte the spider is a survivor. She doesn’t depend on Lurvy to bring her food. She doesn’t scrounge through […]
Fast Gas
by Dorianne Laux -For Richard Before the days of self service, When you never had to pump your own gas, I was the one who did it for you, the girl who […]
What Will I Tell His Daughter
by Meg Day When they removed the yellow tape from the doorway, our neckless birds still sat, unfolding, on the tabletop, his stack of paper—foils & florals & one tartan velum—fanning out […]
Arrival
by Ann LaBar When I arrive, my father will ask, “They pay you for that?” And I will answer no. Payment For poetry is rarely legal tender. It is broken barrettes, non-pareils […]
Mountains and DNA
By Julia Connolly Driving up the crumbling mountain road I’m bombarded by metaphors, snuck up on by similes. As we near the site of the wedding I’m silently singing the words to […]
Tricia Booker on getting overwhelmed
Somehow it helps when someone else admits to pain you feel yourself. “Peeps, I am in a trench. You know how I get. My 2014 Happiness Project has taken a direct hit, […]
Over It
by Alexis Rhone Fancher Now the splinter-sized dagger that jabs at my heart has lodged itself in my aorta, I can’t worry it anymore. I liked the pain, the dig of remembering, […]
Parents Without Partners Toga Dance, Circa 1970’s
by Patricia Fargnoli Stardust hung over the American Legion Hall as we headed from our car to the door, sheathed in sheets, mid-life, pocketbooks swinging. Something better happen, Maureen said. As we […]
AWP 2014: No Shame for Women Writers
Originally posted on The Brevity Blog:
A guest post on the panel “Breaking Silences: Women’s Memoir as an Act of Rebellion” from Tabitha Blankenbiller: It feels like everyone goes to AWP looking for…
The Gloria Sirens 