Q&A with Erika Dreifus, author of BIRTHRIGHT: Poems
“You say that the Bible is just an old book, / But when I consider the story of a Levite’s concubine, / I wonder what has changed since those ancient times.” ~ “On Reading Chapter 19 in the Book of...
View ArticleQ&A with Liz Scott, Author of This Never Happened
We came from no one and we were attached to no one. I could make that sound like a bad thing but I have worn my rootlessness like a custom-made, one-of-a-kind, jewel-encrusted cloak adorned with shiny...
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“One writes out of one thing only–one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only...
View ArticleQ&A with Joanna Rose, author of A Small Crowd of Strangers
“Wonder,” she said. “We are seeking wonder.” . . . Wonder is a lifting in the heart. Wonder is belief in the fleetest moment. Time stops and starts, goes away and comes back from somewhere. Frankie...
View ArticleQ&A with Beth Alvarado, author of Jillian in the Borderlands
“…bones could sing, she knew, and if she drew them in pictures, she would give them back their voices.” ~ from Jillian in the Borderlands by Beth Alvarado One of my favorite books is Margaret Atwood’s...
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