So to Speak would like to invite you to attend the offsite reading we are hosting at this year’s AWP conference!

Yesterday I saw a pink plastic vacuum cleaner in the toy department at Target. This is why I’m a feminist.

I am honored to have my essay “Melt” included in the Spring 2013 issue of So to Speak. I’m also surprised that it found a home in the pages of a feminist journal.

The time has come to examine the term “homebody.” As a lady, wary of the booby traps of domesticity, but also angry about denigration of the feminine, I have crafted a personal somatic definition.

As a woman, an ordained Baptist minister, an interfaith chaplain, a feminist, and a writer, I believe irony and paradox are fundamental. 

The poetic sequence “Glass Armonica” developed out of my research into historical notions of hysteria and the treatments administered by doctors (including ovariectomy, pelvic massage, and vaginally-inserted devices used to produce “hysterical paroxysm”).