She asks me too loudly why she’s seeing only /medicine cabinets — as if I can’t see them also.

“The five o’clock news foretold / mad haruspex in Green Run. / Cassandra pleading in a pant suit…”

“We don’t think language is a clear window through which the world can be presented. Or, if language is a window, we’ve learned that it’s best to examine the glass and the frame.”

Some helpful tips from author Sheila Kilpatrick.

ODU’s writing program–excuse my bias–is one to be reckoned with certainly on a regional level, and possibly also nationally.

“Poetry will always be the backbone of it all,” Giovanni said. “We continue to be part of the truth-telling, bringing out the best in people.”

The head of ODU’s creative writing program asks immense questions about being a self-taught poet, revelations in the Rockies, the writing process, and impossible pangs of the mind and heart.

Patrick Rothfuss will be reading at Prince Books in Norfolk on Friday and at Books A Million in VB on Saturday.

Sometimes it’s hard to believe the world existed before I arrived in it. Apparently, others who suffer from the belief are as ashamed of it as I. Life goes badly enough sooner or later that most lose faith.

Holly Wielkoszewski sits down with D’Orso to chat with him about his path to becoming a writer, what he finds inspirational, and “the big hurt” inside us all.