It feels a bit surreal to be publishing my first full length collection of poetry, Flame Nebula, Bright Nova, at 45, after 20 years of being active in the poetry field—and 15 years after the publication of my poetry chapbook. It can be easy, on a journey like […]
All books have a cover story. What’s yours? Let me start this guest blog post with a confession: I am someone who does judge a book by its cover. Not all books, but with books of poetry, I certainly do. I believe what happens on the cover […]
Zoë Fay-Stindt: I just wanted to start by saying that Already Knew You Were Coming is such a gift. It makes so much space in such a small book—space for different selves and different identities to take up more room. I really appreciate it, and I appreciate you. Thank […]
This article was excerpted and adapted from a 3-part series on writing from the liminal mind, published through the author’s monthly poetry craft newsletter, lullabies & alarms. In 2017 I launched a collaborative performance practice called the Improv Poetry Orchestra (IPO). It’s a simple enough set-up – a […]
When it comes to making submissions to magazine and journals, there’s a ton of good advice on the web about how to choose magazines, how many to send to, and how to keep track of your submissions. But there’s another side to this process that doesn’t get written […]
I can’t even remember the first time my mom mentioned Frida Kahlo to me. It was probably somewhere around middle school age, when I was wildly unsure about myself, my likes, and where I was going to go with my life. Being a chronically ill, anxious young girl […]
I began the The Loneliest Girl in 2015. I wanted to explore the experience of being a woman in the 21st century and compare that to the experience of Medusa. Medusa was a virgin who was raped and then banished to the island of Cisthene where she was […]
It’s so important to do your homework before sending your manuscript to a publisher. Make sure to take notes for each publisher you research. You will most likely want to compare them to each other before deciding where you want to submit. Make sure the press is the […]
In this excerpt from my new book Subjects in Poetry (LSU Press), I discuss how finding your subject can help you find your voice. I thought the discussion might interest Trish’s readers, and thank her for posting it. As late as his mid-twenties—i.e., not late at all as […]
Content Warning: physical abuse, reference to eating fish “…do not paint too much after nature. Art is an abstraction; derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more of the creation which will result than of nature.” —Paul Gauguin Existence is infinite and ineffable, but […]
