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Bianca Glinskas: Hi there, Melissa. First, I want to offer my congratulations on publishing Dear Terror, Dear Splendor. As I first read these poems, there was a growing sense that I was the poet-speaker’s confidante. Reading these pages, I became a witness to your life: the incarceration of your uncles, your brother trying heroine at fourteen, your single mom raising you, your love-filled marriage, the birth of your daughter, grappling with your aging body, and your struggles to feel safe and let go of the fears for yourself and loved ones which overwhelm you.

Bianca Glinskas: Thank you for writing and sharing your wonderful work and for allowing me the privilege of picking your brain a bit about its inner workings.

Dobby Gibson: Thank you for your thoughtful reading of the book. I hope it didn’t subject you to too many rotational g-forces. I’m remembering the time I rode the Incredible Hulk roller coaster in Orlando, Florida, on a co-worker’s dare.

On Thursday, November 21, 2019, Seattle Arts & Lectures will present a reading with Mary Ruefle at Broadway Performance Hall in Capitol Hill. Mary Ruefle has published over ten collections of poetry. Below, local writer Bianca Glinskas reveals three favorite Ruefle poems and what they tell us about the reader and the writer.
The Victorian house was in the middle of Downtown Denver; its low, creme-colored, ornate ceilings, scratched, creaking floorboards, and velvet, vintage furniture made the...

We are so grateful for the many volunteers who make our world go round at the SAL headquarters. Bianca Glinskas is one such volunteer, and not only does she help out in the office—she also writes for our blog! Check out her recent pieces on poet Mary Ruefle here and here.
To see what’s inspired Bianca lately, who she is super excited to see on the SAL stage, and why you should let her know the next time you’re thinking about taking a vacation, read on!
Tells us a bit about yourself…
I am part...

As an emerging poet, I’ve been a bit clueless when it comes to considering how profoundly my writing process affects my work. I type in front of screens in noisy cafes. I am guilty of planning my poems out before I write them. For me, this has served as a sort of safety net which protects me from becoming overwhelmed by the limitless possibilities of writing. I am afraid of heights—and free-falling. This, along with writing prompts, after poems, and style-mimicry, have been like using bumpers...

The Owl was a Baker’s Daughter by Gillian Cummings (Center for Literary Publishing 2018)
Reviewed by Bianca Glinskas
“The speech of rain: it was only a matter
of something asking to be let in”
Why do we feel so close to poets like Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, or Anne Sexton, whose struggles with mental health were often the central discussion of their writing? I think, perhaps, this is because poets know how to go for their own jugular, baring their hearts and deepest truths with readers as...

I was fortunate to meet Adam Houle when he came to read as a Finalist for the Colorado Book Award Finalist at Denver’s BookBar. Adam and I were introduced afterwards through mutual friends. I later reached out to Adam who happily consented to an interview for OnDenver.

About Stray:

The poems in Adam Houle’s Stray primarily muse through their interactions with the landscape of the poet-speaker’s past; we see everything from drowning worms, bee infestations, snake sightings, encounters with str...

Gillian Cummings is the Author of The Owl was a Baker’s Daughter, winner of the 2018 Colorado Prize for Poetry selected by John Yau, forthcoming this November from The Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University. I reached out to Gillian Cummings directly regarding her success, and she enthusiastically consented to an interview.

About The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter:

The title The Owl was a Baker’s Daughter originates from a line spoken by Shakespeare’s Ophelia in Hamlet whose ...

Ghost Of is Diana Khoi Nguyen’s remarkable award-winning poetry debut; this collection is an extensive, jarring rumination on the loss by suicide of her younger brother — the ghost and principal muse of the work. Nguyen’s voice is augmented by family photographs which combine with her poetry to produce innovative multi-media forms; these give a deconstructed dimensionality to her tender lamentations. The result is nothing short of ingenious and sincere vulnerability, a portal into deeply pers...

As a part of the Local Emerging/Established Poet Interview Series, I am excited to introduce Elizabeth Robinson, a local established poet! For those of you who aren’t familiar with her name or work, here is Elizabeth Robinson’s poet biography:

“ELIZABETH ROBINSON is the author of multiple collections of poetry, including the National Poetry Series winner, Pure Descent, and the Fence Modern Poets Prize winner, Apprehend. Her poetry has appeared in such anthologies as American Hybrid, The Norto...

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. This one-page guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography by Jocelyn Baines.
In Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography (1960) Jocelyn Baines applies a discerning eye to Polish-British novelist Conrad’s life and writing. Conrad, a towering figure in ...

For the Denver-based publication, On Denver, Bianca Glinskas interviews Elizabeth Robinson. A resident of Colorado, Robinson's newest collection is entitled Rumor (Parlor Press, Free Verse Editions, 2018). As Glinskas explains, "Rumor hosts Elizabeth’s reading and responses to an unnamed nonfiction work about an unsolved Victorian murder. The opening introduction posits the work’s jumping off point—its pressing focus, its questioning and central conflict, — 'How do we create, perpetuate, abso...