Month: January 2012

Hello, readers!  Stay tuned over the next few weeks for highlights from our new issue. The winners and runners-up of our nonfiction and poetry contests

The long anticipated beauty of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art has arrived in So to Speak’s Spring 2012 Volume 21, No. 1 issue! With cover

Last semester, I had the privilege of teaching an introductory creative writing course at GMU. Today, I wanted to share a particularly excellent piece on

When I was approached to write a companion piece to Sarah Marcus’s wonderful post, Why I Didn’t Get Married, I was apprehensive. How could I

I was instantly seduced after hearing Julie Carr read at an off-site AWP event last winter. Winner of the 2009 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, Julie Carr’s

I enjoy curling up with a poetry book on a quiet evening as much as the next gal, but sometimes I just really want the

I. I first met Sara Northerner when I began my coursework in the PhD in Humanities program at the University of Louisville in August 2008. 

I called off the wedding. Yes, I’m “that girl.” No, I didn’t leave him at the altar. We had plenty of time. The venue and