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Tag Archives: Patricia Caspers
Roundup: We Are Family
In our Roundups segment, we’re looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. We explore posts from our archives as well as other top literary magazines and websites, centered on a certain theme to help … Continue reading
Roundup: Women’s Voices
As we launch a new blog format for the new year, we’re also looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. Our roundups explore the archives and gather past posts around a certain theme to … Continue reading
Posted in Roundups
Tagged Anne Grey Fischer, Christine Sneed, Patricia Caspers, Peter Kline, Rachel Kadish, Thomas Lee
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Hearing Voices: Women Versing Life presents The Everyday Muse
When I was nine my grandparents gave me a copy of Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends, and I fell in love so completely with poetry, I told everyone that when I grew up I was going to be a … Continue reading
Hearing Voices: Women Versing Life presents Liz Kay & Jen Lambert, founding editors of burntdistrict & Spark Wheel Press
When Versedaily posted Benjamin Sutton’s, “three poems from Refutations by Memory,” originally published at burntdistrict, founding editors Jen Lambert and Liz Kay saw a marketing opportunity— one that also created conversation around Sutton’s poems— and offered a lottery for a … Continue reading
Hearing Voices: Women Versing Life presents Natalie Diaz & When My Brother Was an Aztec
I happened to read Natalie Diaz’s book When My Brother Was an Aztec (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) on July Fourth, and it was a surreal experience. I live on small lake in Massachusetts, and as the neighbors blasted the sky … Continue reading
Hearing Voices: Women Versing Life presents Qiu Jin
What fascinates me most about Qiu Jin is the near absence of her work in America, especially considering our love of a rebel and a martyr. Sure, if you Google her name, several sites will offer a version of the … Continue reading
Hearing Voices: Women Versing Life presents Lavonne J. Adams and Historical Poetry
This is a series about women writing life, but sometimes the lives we write are not our own. We may have a personal connection to the historical characters in our poems or we may feel an inexplicable kinship, an irresistible … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers
Tagged A. Van Jordan, Bellocq's Ophelia, Cornelius Eady, Daniel Nathan Terry, Diane Gilliam Fisher, Elizabeth Bradfield, Kate Daniels, Lavonne J. Adams, Mark Strand, Natasha Trethewey, Nicole Cooley, Patricia Caspers, Rita Dove, Sarah Messer, Thomas and Beulah, Through the Glorieta Pass
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Hearing Voices: Women Versing Life presents Tarfia Faizullah and the Unpublished Manuscript
The work of getting a manuscript published, that rejection and frustration, begins to feel at times like self abuse. Writing is a lonely adventure, but most of us feel driven to it; quitting is inconceivable. Submitting work, though, is more … Continue reading
Hearing Voices: Women Versing Life presents Katherine Case and Meridian Press
I knew Katherine Case as a poet first. We were in a poetry workshop together at Mills College, and I was enthralled with her ability to integrate so many ideas into a poem that was usually one breathless sentence. Little … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Stenzel, Artemio Rodriguez, Ash Canyon, Barry Moser, Dean Young, Doppelganger: A Bestiary, Janell Moon, Jennifer Arin, Jennifer K. Sweeney, Katherine Case, Maria K. de Raat, Mary Laird, Mary Oliver, Meridian Press, Mills College, Nevada, Patricia Caspers, Peace Corps, Reno, Rik Olsen, Robert Hass, San Francisco Center for the Book, Thicket Press, Tom Killion, UW Madison, Virginia Westover Weiner, Yves Moralex
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Hearing Voices: Women Versing Life presents Janice N. Harrington
As a poetry editor at Prick of the Spindle, I find that poems about certain subjects, such as childhood, love, aging, and death, often lean too heavily on nostalgia, so that the language limps. In fact, I’ve been guilty of … Continue reading
