PinnedSonia Greenfield16 Weeks, 16 Poems — A Summer Support Group for Overworked AcademicsGreetings, participant, and welcome to our summer-long writing project. Let’s keep this casual, okay?Apr 25Apr 25
Sonia GreenfieldWeeks 8, 9, 10, and 11—Ope! Sorry!“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”Jul 15Jul 15
Sonia GreenfieldWeek #7 — Deep into it now…Sorry I am late with this week’s newsletter. I feel as though I’m shouting into the void with these, so I have lost my momentum. This past…Jun 18Jun 18
Sonia GreenfieldWeek #6—And sometimes you can’t get a thing done, and that’s okay…And just like that, it’s the middle of June. This summer break is moving way too fast. I know I’m going to reconfigure my online classes…Jun 10Jun 10
Sonia GreenfieldWeek #5—Report from the field!I’m sitting here in the tiny house I rented in rural Wisconsin, and I’ve just cracked a can of craft beer. The rain is rolling in but…Jun 2Jun 2
Sonia GreenfieldWeek #4—Writing retreats, work/life balance, word loss, and so forth…Here we are at the start of week #4 already. In week #3 I revised a poem; wrote a short, weird poem; re-read Joan Kwon Glass’s Night Swim…May 26May 26
Sonia GreenfieldWeek #3—Are you done done with your semester? I am!I entered my final grades into the registration system on Tuesday morning, and then I set up my out-of-office auto-reply for my school…May 19May 19
Sonia GreenfieldWeek #2 — On the Brink of Freedom, Poetry Calls…I finished figuring out final grades yesterday, Saturday, and I will enter them into the registration system on Monday. I like to let them…May 12May 12
Sonia GreenfieldWeek #1 — Getting started with this support group: some helpful nibblinsThis is finals week for me at Normandale, here in Minneapolis. I have a mountain of grading to do, but I want to get a solid sixteen weeks…May 4May 4
Sonia GreenfieldOne Editor’s Take on Diversity in PoetryIt’s hard for me to stay dialed in to the politics of the literary community. I can, sometimes, listen in to the conversations taking…Apr 23, 2018Apr 23, 2018