Entries by Bethany

What Are You Writing?

A friend, a former student from my college teaching days, has been revisiting her goal of writing her memoir and she’s been sending me pieces of it. I have loved her story, and her writing, from the time I first met her, and I love it still. But when she said she was back at […]

Reading Emily Dickinson

I was browsing through Poetry Daily and clicked on a link to this article, by Sandra Lim, and found this image: Having just spent February writing peace postcard poems and sending them out daily (yes, that is a thing), having spent a good deal of my adult life obsessing about Emily Dickinson, I felt as […]

Where have you been, Bethany?

I have been working on taking deep breaths that go all the way down through my toes and back up through the crown of my head. I have been reading poems because it is National Poetry Month and each morning copying someone’s poem into my journal then writing my own “bad” version of it. I […]

Join Us!

Just a reminder that I’ll be reading my poems, along with poet Karen Whalley, tomorrow, Saturday, 13 April, noon-1:00, at Edmonds Bookshop. Karen is an amazing poet and I can’t believe my luck at being her long-time friend. To read more about her, click here–or come join us!   “I’ve been waiting for years for […]