Feral Mom, Feral Writer

...Look,/boats of mercy/embark from/our heart at the/oddest knock ... Kay Ryan, The Niagara River (2005), from "Chinese Foot Chart...

Just back from a remembrance celebration for artist and writer Barbara Robinette Moss, ( Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter, Fierce —for excerpt...

I had to add this pregnancy photograph (taken by Robyn Beattie) to balance out the feral poem Engorged up at Literary Mama this week; the p...

I do miss my husband—who spends his nights usually in one of the three beds upstairs that I fail to occupy. But after he’s finished his nigh...

Paired with the photo of an escargot begonia taken by Robyn Beattie, "Rising Sign" is our second photo/writing collaboration to da...

My youngest son turns four this March; lately I’ve been dogged by a familiar anxiety involving the manuscript sitting on my desk. A thick, r...

In this interview, Jessica Powers discusses the rich, varied threads of her life as a writer. Inspirational in her dedication to all three ...