Entries by Bethany

Got Revision?

Just want to give you a quick head’s up about my guest post, yesterday, over at The Poetry Department.  What I learned from writing this post, which is about the different lenses I apply to revising a poem, is that I have WAY TOO MUCH to say in a single post. I was asked for […]

That First Small Step

I recently took my husband and two of my daughters to see Hidden Figures. The story of these women mathematicians inspired my husband to go out and buy the nonfiction book on which the movie is based. His report is that the movie goes way beyond the more grounded details of the real-life story. But I find […]

Emily and Me

The nerve of titling a poetry reading “Emily and Me!” I can only hope that Emily herself would approve (“And then a Plank in Reason, broke / And I…”). So tomorrow from 12-1:30, at the Everett Public Library on Hoyt, I’m scheduled to talk about Emily Dickinson and the practice of poetry, plus read some […]

Earth Day

Yesterday I took the two-hour trip to see my mother. It was a sparkling blue day and the ferry crossing was blue, blue, and blue. It was Earth Day, and we all might continue celebrating by reading something about Science and our besieged planet, or by checking to see if there’s a March for Science […]