March 2, 2016
Ghazals for James Foley
Last week, I received my copy of Ghazals for Foley in the mail. James Foley was an American journalist and my classmate in the MFA program in fiction at UMass Amherst. Jim’s […]
February 7, 2013
Up Close, and at Some Distance: Remembering Elizabeth Bishop
It’s hard to imagine learning to write without having read Elizabeth Bishop’s poems. At nineteen years old, I was a bandana-wearing hippie and a burgeoning feminist when my professor at […]