Archive for January 2023
Interview With Casey Mulligan Walsh
Casey Mulligan Walsh has not had it easy. She lost both parents when she was very young, her brother when she was 20, and then she experienced every parent’s worst nightmare–the loss of a child, her beloved son Eric. How to move on from such losses? “Moving on” may not be the right words, as…
Read MoreDiane Gottlieb: At the Public Library—Surrounded by the Likely in Ordinary People Poems For Holocaust Memorial Day 2023
Diane Gottlieb: At the Public Library— Surrounded by the Likely –after Megan Fernandes I am being interrogated by all the things I do not believe in. But even in this room where our thoughts are still free, where the musty smell of page upon page bound hard between covers or paperbacks, especially here, I feel…
Read MoreInterview With Ellen Birkett Morris
What a great pleasure it was to speak with Ellen Birkett Morris! A gorgeous fiction writer and poet, Ellen has recently begun to write essays about her life experiences. Please join us as we speak about being wonderfully “abnormal,” about the huge realization that it’s okay to ask for help when we need it, and…
Read MoreA Mother’s Resistance Poetry: A Review of Catastrophic Molting in Literary Mama
We’re living in trying, maddening, exhausting times. I often find myself at a loss as to what to do with all the anger and fear. Dr. Amy Shimshon-Santo channeled hers into poetry, and the resulting book, Catastrophic Molting, is a brilliant, impassioned, and urgent collection. Shimshon-Santo introduces the book with a poem titled “declaration,” her acknowledgment…
Read MoreI Didn’t Have Sex For Almost A Decade. I Was Surprised By What I Discovered When I Finally Did in Huffington Post Personal
We did it for the first time in a Holiday Inn on Jericho Turnpike. Like teenagers — but in our 50s — Steven and I “got a room.” When we were young, we worried about our parents catching us. Now, we had our own teenagers to sneak around. I was working in a preschool program…
Read MoreWhat is A Criminal? Three Former “Criminals” Chapter 2
Chapter 2: “Three Former ‘Criminals’” in the anthology What is a Criminal?
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