Today, we invite Tamara Jong to the blog to share the origin of two entries from her debut memoir Worldly Girls! Read on for insights into the inspirations and questions that led Tamara to write the essays “Weight” and “Tell Me a Ghost Story”. Take it away Tamara! __________________________________________________ I first came up with the […]
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Today, Kate Cayley is taking us behind “The Summer the Neighbours Were Nazis,” a story from How You Were Born! I’m fond of the background of this story because I think it illustrates how most stories are cobbled together, a weird mixture of overheard conversations, small scraps, memories and of course pure imagination. But I’m […]
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Today, Beatriz Hausner is taking us behind “Everyday Goddesses,” a poem from She Who Lies Above! “Everyday Goddesses” is a distilling of a longer poem inspired by the work of surrealist artist Virginia Tentindo. I initially conceived of it as a kind of incantation in the manner of the ancient elegiac texts. It incorporates elements […]
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Today, Sandra Ridley is taking us behind “Torchlight,” a poem from Vixen! Torchlight, as in an illumination in the dark. As experienced by the one who holds the torch? Or as experienced by the one caught in its light? The centered visual element of each page of this sequence in Vixen is the beam of […]
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Today, Kathryn Mockler is taking us behind “I Won’t Clean the Tub,” a story from Anecdotes! The second section of Anecdotes is a series of linked autofictional coming-of-age stories. When the #MeToo Movement went viral in 2017, some survivors of abuse and sexual assault were sharing lists about all the times they had been harassed, assaulted, […]
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