On Writing About Trauma

Thoughts and Musings

On writing about trauma: being split, being divided… “I am torn in two but I will conquer myself. I will dig up the pride. I will take scissors and cut out the beggar.”  Anne Sexton Turning back to face trauma in our own history and writing about it can be an...

And have you read… The State of Kansas?

Alumni News, Have You Read?

The Writer caught up with alumna Julianna Spallholz just in time for the publication of her poetry collection, The State of Kansas. In simple, rhythmic, nail-sharp prose, the cast of unnamed characters in The State of Kansas survive a flood, brush their teeth, drink,...

On Collaboration

Thoughts and Musings

Collaboration: Two writers in the ‘Bad Art Room’ “We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of...

And have you read… Slab?

Alumni News, Have You Read?

Slab is Goddard alumna Selah Saterstrom’s new book out from Coffeehouse Press, a place you can rely on for fascinating, timely and inventive work. “On a slab that’s all Katrina left of her Mississippi home, Tiger tells a story full of wickedness and...

White Tablecloths and Trinkets

Thoughts and Musings

By Julie Greene When I was approaching the age of thirteen, I was required to attend services at my synagogue every Friday night, not only to celebrate each Bat Mitzvah that came before mine, but to learn by example how to perform well when my turn came. After each...