“And I’ll greet them, marveling at their reawakening…” Continue reading
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Authors / Interviews / memoir
“Thinking of 40 as the Starting Gate”: Q & A with Jan Beatty
I wanted to write the book that I’d been looking for my entire life and never found. Continue reading
An Excerpt from Maureen Oehler DuRant’s debut poetry collection, Skirmishes on the Oakie-Irish Border
“DuRant’s poems skirmish at the fraught edges of language, winning ground page by page “in a battle to claim turf where tongues can hold their own.” ” Continue reading
Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Donna Henderson
Once, I was your other heartbeat, your deepest
center. You were the world I was and knew.
After—all your life—I thought I was unlike
you: the you I liked, and otherwise.
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Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Muriel Nelson
Spring has shifted the year’s
Uneven balance and the light
Spreads even as dawn adjusts… Continue reading
Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Mark Goldstein
“Soon, several hundred sated, well-lubricated,
Turkish towel donning friends or strangers
will begin to filter out from the labyrinth
of thin-walled, cramped, private cubicles.” Continue reading
Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Anthony DeGregorio
“There are nights when across the bay we can see
Lights pressing the form of a certain small town.” Continue reading
Bloom 