This is a weird time to be a writer. At least the kind that tries to publish (not the Emily Dickinson-they’ll- find -it -when- I’m -dead kind). Everyone keeps talking about what a boom this is for writers these days – with the old guards crumbling and writers being able to connect directly with their… Continue reading The Heart of this Beastly Industry: My Thank You to Small Presses
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New Poems at Boyslut
New Poems, Passing Ordinary Time and Distracted are now up at Boyslut. Feel free to rate ’em and be sure to follow Boyslut. Devlin does a fantastic job with really great work and I’m honored to be included. If you write submission guidelines are here
How Happy is the Blameless Vestal’s Lot. The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders – Nietzsche I forget things. This morning I forgot my keys when I left for work. I kissed my husband goodbye at the door, and then had second goodbye at the window (it’s a silly thing – don’t ask) and then headed… Continue reading How Happy is the Blameless Vestal’s Lot. The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
I Have a Suitcase Heart
“They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.” – Gabrielle Zevin I just got back from two weeks in Italy…a trip that was enlightening, beautiful, frustrating and evoking. I love traveling. I love seeing new places, I love watching a country roll by from the window of a… Continue reading I Have a Suitcase Heart
Miss me?
Hi! Did you miss me?? Sorry I haven’t posted in awhile but I was in Italy which I’ll write about later once I have fully ingested all its crazy beautiful complication. But I will tell you that seeing the David, the Sistine Chapel, the home Galileo was born in and Keat’s grave is a humbling… Continue reading Miss me?
Ally Malinenko 