In a recent letter from a friend, he discussed his love of May Sarton’s Journal of a Solitude. This was one of the first books I read when I began to think about writing. Solitude spurred my love affair with May Sarton. In her writing she is disarmingly honest about her struggles with personal relationship, her own difficult temperament, […]
I have been writing for several years now about my predicament of being both queer and rural. On one hand, I love living where I do. There is not a thirty mile commute to work in gridlock traffic. I rarely have to wait in line for more than ten minutes to buy anything. And there […]
I want this blog to remain largely focused on queer writers, their work and the writing life. I also have not wanted to post my own poems or go on about my personal life. I find my day to day life tedious at best. I don’t think any other person would seek out this blog […]