Entries by Bethany

How to Behold Rae Armantrout

WOBBLE, Rae Armantrout. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459, 2018, 160 pages, $14.95 paper, www.wesleyan.edu/wespress. PARTLY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, 2001-2015, Rae Armantrout. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459, 2018, 252 pages, $19.95 paper, www.wesleyan.edu/wespress. Rae Armantrout has published more than two dozen books of poetry, one of which, Versed, won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. […]

My Poem at Verse Daily

I’m thrilled to have a poem from The Pear Tree featured (today!) at Versedaily.org. (The link will take you to my poem.) There are a number of poem-a-day sites on the Internet now, and I subscribe to a bunch of them. Poetry Daily and Verse Daily were the forerunners of this trend, and it’s an honor, […]

Elder Voices Project

Just letting you know about a submission opportunity for Whatcom County poets and writers. The workshops (notice mine is TOMORROW!) are open to all ages. Registration is NOT required, and the workshops are free to all.  

Random thoughts about daughters

Alternate title: the writer with children. This started out as one sort of reflection, and turned into another. My older two daughters turn 31 today, which I find completely unbelievable. Their baby sister turns 25 in 10 days. I was never a young mom. I was 37 when we adopted Annie and Pearl, and 43 […]