As writers we are so often told to "write what you know." And this is good advice. But this "rule" should not be taken literally, especially when creating persona poems. The poet must create a place where the reader must, as Samuel T. Coleridge famously said, "willingly suspends […]
Since the late 1970s, Linda Pastan has been writing "quiet" verse on marriage, family, parenting, and grief. While she was a senior at Radcliffe College, she won Mademoiselle's poetry prize (in case you didn't know, Sylvia Plath was the runner-up). Despite that success, for the next decade, Pastan put poetry aside […]
I'm a beginner at many things. For instance, I'm a beginner at traveling and cooking and although I've been trying to learn Spanish for over three years now, it seems like I'm a beginner at that, too. I'm also a beginner at writing poetry. I started writing poetry […]
Big thanks to Karen Craigo for publishing my article "Why you should submit to literary magazines: 5 insightful articles" on her blog earlier this week. Make sure to watch for Karen Craigo’s guest blog post here on my blog in the future! My article includes my own short list of reasons […]
The most intense and individual movement of expression is the establishment of art. It was born with all living beings as soon as they were. I am drawn in by the communal harmony that art brings forth and binds. This dualism does not split the discourse - rather, […]
The most intense and individual movement of expression is the establishment of art. It was born with all living beings as soon as they were. I am drawn in by the communal harmony that art brings forth and binds. This dualism does not split the discourse - rather, […]
Night Court, a poetry collection by Erica Goss, is the winner of the 2016 Lyrebird Award from Glass Lyre Press. The collection will be published in the summer of 2017. When I received the news that Night Court was a semi-finalist for the Lyrebird Award from Glass Lyre […]
Night Court, a poetry collection by Erica Goss, is the winner of the 2016 Lyrebird Award from Glass Lyre Press. The collection will be published in the summer of 2017. When I received the news that Night Court was a semi-finalist for the Lyrebird Award from Glass Lyre […]
Back in September, I was inspired by an article on Lit Hub by Kim Liao about setting a goal of 100 rejections per year. The idea being that making the rejections the goal would take some of the sting out of getting them and hopefully remove the mental block most […]
Back in September, I was inspired by an article on Lit Hub by Kim Liao about setting a goal of 100 rejections per year. The idea being that making the rejections the goal would take some of the sting out of getting them and hopefully remove the mental block most […]
