Category: writing

Listen to MY First Poetry Reading (!)

Listen to my first (recorded) poetry reading! It also includes some of the other poets in my MA class at University College Cork

A Lone Star State of Mind

I’d written about the Greek and Roman gods before, so I thought while I was in Ireland I would focus on the myths of my Irish ancestors. And yet all I seem to want to write about since I got here in September is where I come from: Texas.

My Evening With Neil Gaiman

“When I was young, I was bitten by a radioactive book.” I have never sat in a theatre full of a stranger conglomeration of people before.

Starting Over: Blog and Life

I’m back, and ready to try this blogging thing again.

Book Review: Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Before this summer, and the three English courses I took during it, I’d never given much thought to walking across the world. Yet, after reading Cheryl Strayed’s award winning book, “Wild,” walking is all I want to do.