I sat down with all of Stein’s books and several anthologies in front of me. I can do this, I said out loud to myself (while by myself). I opened “Tender Buttons,” and then I quickly closed “Tender Buttons.” What the eff just happened? I thought to myself. Why would anyone do this?

Congratulations to former So to Speak contributor Lilah Hegnauer of Charlottesville, VA, whose manuscript Pantry was just named a finalist in the 2010-2011 Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, judged by Lynn Emanuel!

When faced with posting to this blog, I’m forced to reconcile with the fact that I approach being a woman with the same pleased neutrality that I approach being a bipedal omnivore.

Trisha Low’s conceptual piece titled “Confessions” appears in 2011 publication of Against Expressions: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, edited by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith.

This past Thursday, April 28th, was the 19th anniversary of Take Our Daughters to Work Day! When I was a kid, my dad worked in a lab that had a pretty strict “no kids” policy, so one year he brought his work to my classroom.

A friend of mine is putting together a zine on “heartfelt passion.” She and I were having a conversation about self-care when she told me about this zine project, so this is the direction I went in: