Last month, I went on my very first post-graduate school writing retreat, and let me tell you… IT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED. On a whim, I clicked on some contest to win a free room for up to five days at the When Words Count retreat in Vermont. It seemed kind of fishy at… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Ramblings
Writing in White Spaces
When I first started my MFA program back in 2005, I was very aware of being one of very few black faces in the crowd. It had been that way for me as an undergrad, but with my MFA, I was concerned that my professors and classmates wouldn’t “get” my work because they didn’t know… Read more »
2016 Is Dead
Right around the end of Latinx History Month (which is coming up on the 15th), I pretty much write off the current year and start planning for the next: What stories will I focus on? What programs will I produce? Which writers and poets do I want to meet and/or work with? Will this be… Read more »