OFFICIAL BLOG RENEWAL POST003-1016
I wrote a new poem last night/today titled REUNION. I feel it is in final form and will be sending it out very soon. I am prepping material for my anticipated feature at Casa Azul in Grand Coteau, LA in April (National Poetry Month) of 2010. I know it is a ways [...]
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Reunion
Posted in Acadiana, Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Cajun, Creativity, Literary Journals, Literature, Louisiana, Music, Poetry, Poets, Self, The Writing Life, Writers, tagged Art, Bipolar Disease, Creative Writing, Creativity, Literature, Louisiana Arts, Louisiana Poets, Mental Illness, Mental Wellness, Music, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Poetry Readings, Poets, Publishing, Self, Southern Literature, The Arts, The South, The Writing Life, Women, Women Poets, Women Writers, Women's Issues, Writers, Writing, Writing Life on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Living Truer To My Self
Posted in Acadiana, Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Cajun, Creativity, Death, Death of a Child, Health, Literary Journals, Literature, Mother, Poetry, Poets, Publishing, Self, The Writing Life, Writers, tagged Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Body, Cajun, Creative Writing, Creativity, Death, Death of a Child, Family, Health, Life, Literature, Louisiana, Louisiana Arts, Louisiana Poets, Love, Mental Illness, Mental Wellness, Poetry, Poetry Readings, Poets, Publishing, Self, Southern Literature, The Arts, The South, The Writing Life, Women, Women Poets, Women Writers, Women's Issues, Writers, Writing, Writing Life on October 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
OFFICIAL BLOG RENEWAL POST002-1015
In 2004 the death of my beloved child prompted me to look deeply at my life and how I could live truer to my self from the point of Adam’s death onward. What meant the most to me beyond my own and my family’s health and well-being was to be the writer [...]
Nice to meet ya, again.
Posted in Acadiana, Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Body, Books, Cajun, Creative Nonfiction, Creativity, Death, Friendship, Language, Literary Journals, Literature, Louisiana, Love, Memoirs, Moon, Mother, Nature, New Orleans, Photography, Poetry, Poets, Publishing, Self, Self Portraits, Short Fiction, Sunsets, The Writing Life, Theatre, Word List, Writers, tagged Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Body, Cajun, Clare's Publications, Creative Writing, Creativity, Death, Life, Literature, Louisiana, Louisiana Arts, Louisiana Poets, Love, Mental Illness, Mental Wellness, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Poetry Readings, Poets, Publishing, Self, Southern Literature, The Arts, The South, The Writing Life, Women, Women Poets, Women Writers, Women's Issues, Writers, Writing, Writing Life on October 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
OFFICIAL BLOG RENEWAL POST001-1014
Each success, no matter how small, in practice of what I love is a lightning strike against the dark. And I have been in dark, metaphorically dark and literally extinguished places. I’ve been around fires a blazin’ too and they can be happy places!
Ah ha, yes. Well.
I am a poet/mother/wife living with bipolar disease. [...]
Press 1 New Issue
Posted in Acadiana, Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Creativity, Literary Journals, Literature, Poetry, Poets, Publishing, Self, The Writing Life, Writers, tagged Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Cajun, Clare's Publications, Creative Writing, Creativity, Literature, Louisiana, Louisiana Arts, Louisiana Poets, Mental Wellness, Poetry, Poets, Publishing, Self, Southern Literature, The Arts, The Writing Life, Women Poets, Women Writers, Writers, Writing, Writing Life on May 21, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The new issue of Press 1 has been released. My poems Memento Mori and Tattoo are included in this issue.
Thanks to Arlene Ang and the editors!
Break Time
Posted in Acadiana, Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Books, Creativity, Literary Journals, Literature, Louisiana, Poetry, Poets, Publishing, Self, The Writing Life, Writers, tagged Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Cajun, Clare's Publications, Creative Writing, Creativity, Life, Literature, Louisiana, Louisiana Arts, Louisiana Poets, Mental Illness, Mental Wellness, Poetry, Poets, Publishing, Self, Southern Literature, The Arts, The South, The Writing Life, Women Poets, Women Writers, Women's Issues, Writers, Writing, Writing Life on May 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am nocturnal.
I worked all night and much of the morning on Orphans of Dark and Rain and Eating the Heart First manuscripts–tuning, cutting, and tweaking whatever needed tweaks. I took a break to cook breakfast for my husband before he left for work. Yes, he has to work today–Mother’s Day, a Sunday…but maybe only [...]
Of two minds
Posted in Acadiana, Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Books, Creativity, Literary Journals, Literature, Louisiana, Poetry, Poets, Publishing, Self, The Writing Life, Writers, tagged Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Cajun, Clare's Publications, Creative Writing, Creativity, Literature, Louisiana, Louisiana Arts, Louisiana Poets, Love, Mental Illness, Mental Wellness, Poetry, Poetry Readings, Poets, Publishing, Self, Southern Literature, The Arts, The South, The Writing Life, Women, Women Poets, Women Writers, Women's Issues, Writers, Writing, Writing Life on May 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I am working on two manuscripts. I went back to Garbage Woman to reshape it and add new material, and while working on it I thought the section title Orphans Of Dark and Rain could be its own chapbook. Many of my newest writings fit thematically. So I think I will end up with two [...]
Renewal
Posted in Acadiana, Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Cajun, Creativity, Family, Literature, Louisiana, Love, Marriage, Mother, Photography, Poetry, Poets, Prayer, Publishing, Self, The Writing Life, Writers, tagged Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Body, Cajun, Creativity, Mental Illness, Mental Wellness, Poets, Self, Wifehood, Women, Women Writers, Women's Issues, Writing Life on May 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am taking me in a whole new, freeing direction metaphorically speaking.
Well if you call this a life…
Posted in Acadiana, Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Cajun, Creativity, Literary Journals, Literature, Louisiana, Poetry, Poets, Publishing, Self, The Writing Life, Writers, tagged Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Cajun, Creative Writing, Creativity, Literature, Louisiana, Louisiana Arts, Louisiana Poets, Mental Illness, Mental Wellness, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Poetry Readings, Poets, Publishing, Self, Southern Literature, The Arts, The South, The Writing Life, Women, Women Poets, Women Writers, Writers, Writing, Writing Life on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I received a great compliment from my 13 year old daughter today when she said in reference to herself: “Well my mom’s a poet.” And then she rattled off a few titles of my poems that she particularly likes. I was made immensely happy—maybe for life.
I have poems coming up in “Press 1″ in May. [...]
Writing For Life
Posted in Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Body, Cajun, Creativity, Family, Friendship, Health, Literary Journals, Literature, Louisiana, Love, Poetry, Poets, Publishing, Self, The Writing Life, Writers, tagged Bipolar Disease, Mental Illness, Mental Wellness, Poetry, Poets, Self, The Writing Life on April 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s the same old, same old…still kind of living like a hermit…but I am getting out more. Writing in the middle of the night…sleeping as I can. I have been pushing hard to get poems out—to produce them and to send them to literary journals for possible publication. I have six poems coming up in [...]
The Line-Up
Posted in Acadiana, Art, Artists, Bipolar Disease, Cajun, Creativity, Literature, Louisiana, Poetry, Poets, Self, The Writing Life, Writers, tagged Louisiana Arts, Louisiana Poets, Poetry, Poetry Readings, Poets, The Arts, The Writing Life on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
These are the poems I will read next week at Casa Azul.
HEGIRA
ROADS
Memento Mori
WHAT OF THIS MORNING
TO THE ADDICT IN ME
MADNESS IS AWARENESS OF THINGS
PUNISHMENT
THIS IS THE GRAVE I DUG FOR YOU
YOU LEFT ME AS SUMMER DEPARTED
PRAYER OF THE DREAMER
THE SLEEPLESS
Please note:
I am She
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