I have been staying in Charleston, SC for a few days to clear my mind before school starts and to get some writing done (and also because, right now, all of my paying work can be done remotely). My plan was to go through the full-length manuscript I “finished” in January. Though I have been… Read More A Few Days in Charleston
The best way to get your poems published is to send them out. That being said, you’ll end up receiving more rejections than acceptances, no matter who you are. The whole thing is just a numbers game. So why not reframe and welcome the reality of those inescapable rejections? One way to do this is… Read More Rejection City, Here I Come: Trying to Accrue 100 Rejections in 2018
I’m thinking about beginning to frame these Links & Politics posts to focus on the ways that people are using language in the service of social justice. I have also started making a running list of the resistance anthologies that have been published since the November 2016 election. There will be a blog post to… Read More Links & Politics: July 2018 Edition, Part 2
Well, many of us are waiting for tomorrow with…bated breath?…to hear 45’s new Supreme Court nominee. It sound like it’s going to be a decision between bad, terrible, and horrifying. You may have seen Ms. Magazine‘s newly-revived “Daring to Remember” series to which people are submitting their stories of what it was like to have… Read More Links & Politics: July 2018 Edition
I recently sat on a panel of queer writers at Books & Books for Pride Month. I feel sort of funny about writing two advice posts in a row, but I do want to share the list of tips the panel moderator asked us to compile for new writers. I tried to think about what… Read More Advice for New Writers
Freesia McKee is a poet and essayist who writes about gender and power. Headmistress Press published Freesia’s first chapbook How Distant the City in 2017. How Distant the City is now available on the Headmistress online store and from Amazon.com. Her series of post-election poems For the Immediate Aftermath is available online. Freesia’s words have… Read More Writer and Poet
