Reading, Writing, & Raptures

Pro Tip: If you don't know how to begin your blog post, try "the photo of a strange thing I saw" cold open. It's been ...

I'm introducing a new series of posts: Strange Book Saturdays! In these posts, I invite you to gawk with me at oddball books. I won...

Someday, I will write a holiday-themed post before the holiday in question. But today is obviously not that day. We had a simple, strippe...

Last week, I managed to come down with the flu, which I'm still fighting, so between that and work deadlines, blogging just didn't h...

Poetry has a way of cropping up in unexpected places. Yesterday, in celebration of a dear friend's birthday, I went into Port Townsend. ...

Just because April is almost over doesn't mean that I'm done celebrating. Of course, I've been celebrating by reading and writ...

Between a stubborn illness and editing deadlines, I haven't had much time to even think about blogging. However, since some people (i.e....

April is National Poetry Month. The Academy of American Poets (through poets.org ) offers a list of 30 Ways to Celebrate National Poetry ...

So it's April and I haven't even posted my Fifty Books List from 2012 yet.... It seems like I can only manage one of two things: I c...

Okay, first things second. I will have two poems in an upcoming edition of The Sow's Ear Poetry Review (when I find out which issue, I...

Happy 2012, everyone! I hope you all had a good Christmas. Most of our decorations are in boxes, which are hidden behind other boxes somew...

What does Bethany do during those long stretches when she's not blogging? Generally, she shuffles commas for money, writes, gets sinus...