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Columns: Birthing the Mother Writer
2015
October 2015 Motherhood is Always Saying Good-bye: My Last “Birthing the Mother Writer” Column
September 2015 Reader Response to Birthing the Mother Writer Class 5: The Spectrum of Creative Nonfiction
May 2015 Birthing the Mother Writer Class 5: The Spectrum of Creative Nonfiction
April 2015 Reader Response to Birthing the Mother Writer Class 4: The Roll/Role of Dialogue in Fiction
March 2015 Birthing the Mother Writer Class 4: The Roll/Role of Dialogue in Fiction
February 2015 Reader Response to Birthing the Mother Writer Class 3: The Arc/Ark of Narrative
January 2015 Birthing the Mother Writer Class 3: The Arc/Ark of Narrative
2014
December 2014 Reader Responses to Birthing the Mother Writer Class 2: How to Claim Yourself as a Mother Poet
November 2014 Birthing the Mother Writer Class 2: The Deeper Stuff of Poetry
October 2014 Reader Response to Class 1: Poetry is the Map
September 2014 Birthing the Mother is Back! Class 1: Poetry is the Map
April 2014 Editor Response to Renewal: Beginning a New Season in the Mother Writer Life
March 2014 Renewal: Beginning a New Season in the Mother Writer Life
March 2014 Reader Response to Fallow: Remembering that Before Birth Comes the Cave
January 2014 Fallow: Remembering that Before Birth Comes the Cave
2013
December 2013 Reader Response to Pruning: Centering Your Writing Around Its Roots
November 2013 Pruning: Centering Your Writing Around Its Roots
October 2013 Reader Response to Gathering in the Harvest of Girls: On Mothering, Desire, and Writing
September 2013 Gathering in the Harvest of Girls: On Mothering, Desire, and Writing
August 2013 Reader Response to Fruiting: What Happens After You Become a Published Writer
July 2013 Fruiting: What Happens After You Become a Published Writer (A Guide for When the Fruits of Your Labor Start Coming In)
May 2013 Reader Response to Planting: Sowing the Seeds of the Self in One’s Own Writing Room
April 2013 Planting: Sowing the Seeds of the Self in One’s Own Writing Room
March 2013 Reader Response to Wintering: Moving within the Self as a Way of Conceiving One’s Own Writing
February 2013 Wintering: Moving within the Self as a Way of Conceiving One’s Own Writing
January 2013 Reader Response to Being a Natural Mother
2012
December 2012 Being a Natural Mother
November 2012 Reader Response to Desiring Natural Motherhood
October 2012 Desiring Natural Motherhood
September 2012 Reader Response to School for Mama
August 2012 School for Mama
June 2012 Reader Response to A Dozen Years
May 2012 A Dozen Years
April 2012 Reader Response to In spring, the daughter blossoms
March 2012 In spring, the daughter blossoms
February 2012 Reader Response to My New Year’s Resolution: Belly Time
January 2012 My New Year’s Resolution: Belly Time
2011
November 2011 Reader Response to The Poetry of Loss: On Mothering and Dealing with Death
October 2011 The Poetry of Loss: On Mothering and Dealing with Death
September 2011 Reader Response to “Essential French and Italian for Mamas”
August 2011 Essential French and Italian for Mamas
May 2011 Reader Response to “Daddy’s American”
April 2011 “Daddy’s American”
March 2011 Reader Responses to Awake
February 2011 Awake
January 2011 Reader Response to The Labyrinth of Motherhood
2010
November 2010 The Labyrinth of Motherhood
October 2010 Reader Response to Mother Bees: Gathering the Beautiful from the School Experience
September 2010 Mother Bees: Gathering the Beautiful from the School Experience
July 2010 Reader Response to Mother to Father
June 2010 Three Poems: Mother to Father
May 2010 Reader Response to Coming Out (as a Mother Writer)
April 2010 Coming Out (as a Mother Writer)
March 2010 Reader Response to Sleeping Beauty & The Fairy Prince: A Modern Retelling
February 2010 Sleeping Beauty & The Fairy Prince: A Modern Retelling
January 2010 Reader Response to Passing the Ball
2009
December 2009 Passing the Ball
November 2009 Reader Response to What We Carry From Our Mothers
October 2009 What We Carry From Our Mothers
September 2009 Reader Response to Notes from the Mother Journey
July 2009 Notes from the Mother Journey: Using Journals to Reflect on Your Decision to Become a Mother
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