From lithub.com September 7, 2022 by Cai Emmons At eight years old I began writing poetry. I loved the sounds of words, and I loved stringing them together, often nonsensically. I liked the solitude of writing, the secrecy, the fact that I was in control. I did it knowing that poetry carried little weight in …
From lithub.com, by Charles Johnson . . . On November 11, 1991, I had the privilege and pleasure of reading with Marshall at the Poetry Center in NYC. I felt it was an honor because I’d long been an admirer of her novel Brown Girl, Brownstones, published in 1959 when I was 11 years old. …
LAURIE FRANKEL: BEING A GIRL IS HARD BUT AWESOME published on LitHub March 2, 2018 In my twenties, in graduate school, I thought a lot about my daughter. She didn’t exist yet, but when you’re studying fiction for a living, this doesn’t matter as much. I had long observed that being a girl in the …
DAVE BOLING FOLLOWS A THREAD OF FAMILY HISTORY TO TELL UNTOLD STORIES by Dave Boling, from LitHub June 23, 2017: It’s a typical conversation-starter for authors: “What are you writing about these days?” My answering, “the Anglo-Boer War,” triggered a typical response. The interrogators would tilt their head and nod, buying time to find a …
