Writing Your Pandemic Story Through Micro-Memoir: Online Writing Class, May-June 2020

Note: This class has completely filled up! Thank you for your interest, and stay tuned for future class offerings later this summer. COVID-19 is a global pandemic, but every person has a unique story to share about weathering this collective trauma and summoning up resilience. Some writers who are keeping journals, diaries, or field… Read More Writing Your Pandemic Story Through Micro-Memoir: Online Writing Class, May-June 2020

May 6, 2020May 14, 2020 Freesia McKeeLeave a comment

What I Published This Year: A 2019 Scrapbook

Happy (almost) New Year! I hope that whoever is reading this has been able to find some rest and relaxation this holiday season. It’s been quite a year in terms of politics, politically-charged vigilante violence, a continued refusal (by some) to turn around this thing called global warming, crises large and small around the world,… Read More What I Published This Year: A 2019 Scrapbook

December 31, 2019December 31, 2019 Freesia McKee2 Comments

“My True Story”: An Interview with Kate O’Brien Wooddell

Writer, storyteller, and educator Kate O’Brien Wooddell recently published her first collection, Beasts, through Florida’s Happy Tapir Press. Beasts is a compendium of poems, flash memoir, and even a couple of pieces that verge into surrealism and magic. Beasts covers familial, often politicized themes like motherhood and daughterhood, sexual abuse, travel, memory, and reconciliation, all… Read More “My True Story”: An Interview with Kate O’Brien Wooddell

December 18, 2019December 19, 2019 Freesia McKeeLeave a comment

Summer Send-Off

It’s nearly the end of August, so I thought it would be a good time to reflect on what happened this summer. This post is more for my own records than anything else. I’m not sure how wide the audience is for this type of post, but what’s a blog for anyway? A blog’s a… Read More Summer Send-Off

August 28, 2019August 28, 2019 Freesia McKee2 Comments

What, Oh What to Read and Write in 2019

Okay, so we’re almost two months into 2019. What’s been going on in the world of this blog? 2019: What’s happening? Savoring new publications written by friends If you like fairy tales, philosophy, and the fantastic, Jonathan Duckworth’s chapbook Book of Never is well worth your time. Copies of other friends’ books are on their way: Chloe… Read More What, Oh What to Read and Write in 2019

February 19, 2019February 19, 2019 Freesia McKeeLeave a comment

13 Ways to Revise a Poem

This semester, I have started teaching a writing and rhetoric class (thrilling! surprising! edifying! terrifying!) to first-year college students at my university. Though we aren’t writing poems in the class, I’ve found myself reflecting a lot on my own poetry writing process because no matter what genre you’re writing in, all writing has something in… Read More 13 Ways to Revise a Poem

September 7, 2018 Freesia McKee2 Comments

Links I Like: August 2018 Edition

I’ve been having conversations recently about voice and audience, social media and readership, work and attention. As writers, how do we find good homes for our writing? Is a platform “better” if there are more readers? Is it wrong to want additional readers? What about the moral issues we have with social media? We’re “supposed… Read More Links I Like: August 2018 Edition

August 5, 2018 Freesia McKeeLeave a comment

Oh, Buoyant Group of Artist-Friends

Right now, I should be writing…something else. I am trying to finish up two book reviews today. I need to scale down many, many pages of notes. I should be planning the class I’m supposed to start teaching later this month. Should be reading the stack of books I’m trying to finish before the summer… Read More Oh, Buoyant Group of Artist-Friends

August 1, 2018 Freesia McKeeLeave a comment

Micro-Reviews of New VegAl Poetry: Jarrott, Thompson & La Force

A few years ago, my friend Bethany Price started holding an itinerant writing group in coffee shops in Milwaukee. The group was fun because we wrote, but it was also great because Bethany assembled a different collection of weirdos each time. You always knew you would meet interesting people. A few years later, one of… Read More Micro-Reviews of New VegAl Poetry: Jarrott, Thompson & La Force

July 24, 2018 Freesia McKeeLeave a comment

Poets & Activists & the Social Media Backdrop

One morning earlier this week, I woke up early, had time to snooze, and thus ended up lying in bed typing a weirdo pseudo-mini-essay Facebook post on my phone about dead raccoons, the perils of Miami traffic, performance art, and my ambivalence toward social media. Every time I post something on Facebook, I get an… Read More Poets & Activists & the Social Media Backdrop

July 24, 2018 Freesia McKee1 Comment

Freesia McKee

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