An Exhilarant Attentiveness (2)

An Exhilarant Attentiveness (2)

Posted by on Nov 11, 2015 in On The Personal Narrative | No Comments

By Cynthia Hogue.   In the violent first decade of the 21st century, I cannot stop considering ways a complex, artistic mind approaches the phenomenon of violence. I’ve brought this obsession to class and workshop discussions of poets like Dickinson and Stevens, for example, poets who aren’t the first to come to mind when we […]

A Spy In the House of Love

A Spy In the House of Love

Posted by on Apr 19, 2015 in On The Personal Narrative | No Comments

By Marcia Aldrich.   I wrote a scene for an essay called “The Mother Bed,” and I return to it repeatedly, involuntarily. Writers aren’t supposed to repeat themselves.  The assumption is a writer works through the emotions of a scene and then lets it go. Whoever  developed this theoretical ideal didn’t grow up in my […]