by Xianna Michaels | Apr 10, 2014 | Books
Books I don’t have most of my childhood poems, but I’ve never forgotten the very first one. Written at the beginning of the school year, it was called simply, “The Fall.” The Fall (New York, 1959) Some leaves turn red and some turn brown, Then the leaves come tumbling...
by Xianna Michaels | Apr 9, 2014 | Books
release “Release Me” is a sonnet written during an unaccustomed period when I could not seem to carve out time to write. It is unnerving for me to read it today, because about two years after I wrote it I suffered a literal, catastrophic fall and broke my jaw and my...
by Xianna Michaels | Mar 27, 2014 | Editorial
Month: March 2014 I am very eclectic and would say I have favorite poems more than favorite poets, but I am drawn to spiritual poetry above all, with love poems a close second. Here is a partial list of poems I go back to again and again (in no particular order). Abou...
by Xianna Michaels | Mar 27, 2014 | Editorial
brain I enjoy studying fashion history and going to vintage shows, and I love vintage jewelry. I love to read and I’m forever buying books. I read a great deal about the new frontiers of brain chemistry and the implications of technology thereof. I am both fascinated...
by Xianna Michaels | Mar 27, 2014 | Editorial
Month: March 2014 I began writing stories as soon as I could write. I wrote my first “book” when I was in first grade and home sick with the measles. It was fully illustrated with a pink cover and was entitled, “The Big Parade”. I still have it. I began writing poems...
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