Welcome to my new and improved website! Thank you for sticking with me all these years - I started blogging in 2012! I appreciate your friendship and commitment! So, things around here will look a little different...and there are some posts that will have lost their links and images in the 'move'...but the words are… Continue reading Hello Gorgeous!
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The Working Writer
September always falls into my lap like a bunch of orange leaves. This year is no exception. We've all been feeling the speed at which life is going this year. I call it #ballsfast. (You can start a world phenomenon with the hashtag. Go ahead.) While the summer did go by #ballsfast each day felt… Continue reading The Working Writer
Local Literary Events April 8-12!
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2015 - 7PM The University of Windsor students in the Editing & Practicum class (taught by Windsor's Poet Laureate Marty Gervais) is having its annual book launch. This year it's a triple threat with new poetry from local poet Peter Hrastovic, new prose and poetry by Gillian Cott and an anthology about… Continue reading Local Literary Events April 8-12!
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Poetry?
April 1st, 2015 I found my voice in the bedrooms of the many homes I lived in as a child. Stuffed in the back of a closet feverishly writing in a journal or reading a novel whose characters taught me how to survive and laugh and believe – I found my voice in the hiding… Continue reading What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Poetry?
VANESSA SHIELDS 