I’m always answering the question, “Why poetry?” The question assumes different shapes depending on who’s asking. A tinder match will say, “But what are you going to do with that degree?” A relative at my grandmother’s funeral will roll her eyes when I tell her I’m retiring from […]
The personal is political.—feminist slogan I was raised in a family and culture with “a strong work ethic”—an inflexible ideal. Part of this philosophy is that we should never give in to pain; we must always overcome it. I am a professor, poet, wife, mother to three dogs. […]
This great blog post by Nancy Chen Long gives a description of what a broadside is and links to some examples. She also shares: ways to create your own broadsides a list of broadside contests with their info and fees a list of broadside publishers Big thanks to Nancy […]
I had quite a few poems published this year. In fact it was my best year ever. And all of my poems were published anonymously (minus half a dozen or so). Why did I do this, you ask? In 2014 I embarked on an anonymous adventure, publishing some […]
Years ago, when I was young and impressionable and dreamy and romantic and oh so foolish and thought I had something to offer and thought I could help the world—nay, thought I was MEANT to help the world, I fell in love. Hard. You know the kind—big sigh […]
Fugue Journal is a literary journal out of the University of Idaho. It was launched in 1990 and has been run ever since by graduate students in the Creative Writing MFA Program. We publish both a Summer/Fall print issue and a Winter/Spring online issue. Working for Fugue for […]
I confess. It began early in my life as a poet-apprentice, my love affair with epigraphs. As soon as I learned this name for a quote usually in italics beneath a poem’s title and before its first line, I found them seductive. True, as a reader, I sometimes […]
