Writing, life: In secret whispers She writes in secret whispers Speaking herself as heroine of her own story The diary holds the key to free her soul Her friend listens intently as she scribes Today I did this, tomorrow I will do that She writes in secret whispers She promises herself more than a fairy…
In-sistered writing
An ode to Emily Dickinson
An ode to Emily Dickinson I will be forever grateful to bell hooks for introducing me to the poetry of Emily Dickinson. For hooks, the poetry of Emily Dickinson was a way to find love in a world where no one understood what that world meant. “Poems came in another language”, hooks recalls as she…
Just three words: Writing with Laurel Richardson
I am home. Sun kissed free. Wild heart dancing. Breathing in out. Warm winds play. About my face. In my hair. Caress my body. Here I am. Staring fixed fast. Who is she? The mirror tells. The only truth. I keep looking. Seeing a/not-her. There is way. Too much body. My breath holds. In that…
The feminist song
While away on retreat with the DRAW (Departing Radically in Academic Writing” group at the end of 2020, we were tasked to create a writing manifesto, a statement which clearly set out our beliefs in who we are as writers, what we write and why. I immediately thought of Valerie Solanas’ 1967 “S.C.U.M (Society for…
Returning to Laurel
Every once in a awhile you return to writing you love by writers you adore, writing that is filled with love for words and the world, and reminds of you why you love writing too. Today I returned to Laurel Richardson https://laurelrichardson.blog/. Laurel is a feminist sociologist well-known for her book Fields of Play: Constructing…