This blog has migrated to a new address: bellyqueen.wordpress.com.
I've consolidated this Belly Blog with The Belly Bulletin. You can subscribe to updates by email and enjoy a new look as well.
To subscribe to The Belly Bulletin through FeedBurner, click the "sign up" link in the column to the right, or click here.
Enjoy!
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
A literary winner!
Okay, a runner-up, actually -- but I feel like a winner!
My 600-word story, "Poetry At Six," is one of two runners-up in NPR's Three Minute Fiction contest, selected from 3,600 entries. The judge, James Wood, is literary critic at The New Yorker. Whew!
The two requirements for the entries: No more than 600 words, and the first line must be "The nurse left work at five o'clock."
The link to The Woman's Belly Book is evident but subtle. The poetic foot, the iamb, that shares the story's center relates to "limping Iambe" (also known as Baubo, the Belly Goddess) in the Greek legend of Demeter and Persephone and in the Eleusinian Rites as well.
And then there's the "speckled bowl," of course.
"Poetry At Six" is posted here and you can hear about the contest itself here.
(If you activate the audio on that page, you can hear James Wood talk about my story a bit; that part isn't included in the written excerpt online.)
Fun!
My 600-word story, "Poetry At Six," is one of two runners-up in NPR's Three Minute Fiction contest, selected from 3,600 entries. The judge, James Wood, is literary critic at The New Yorker. Whew!
The two requirements for the entries: No more than 600 words, and the first line must be "The nurse left work at five o'clock."
The link to The Woman's Belly Book is evident but subtle. The poetic foot, the iamb, that shares the story's center relates to "limping Iambe" (also known as Baubo, the Belly Goddess) in the Greek legend of Demeter and Persephone and in the Eleusinian Rites as well.
And then there's the "speckled bowl," of course.
"Poetry At Six" is posted here and you can hear about the contest itself here.
(If you activate the audio on that page, you can hear James Wood talk about my story a bit; that part isn't included in the written excerpt online.)
Fun!
Thursday, July 02, 2009
What about men?
Every now and then, a woman or a man asks, with respect to my penchant for belly-celebration: What about men?
I appreciate these questions. What I write follows from what I experience...in a woman's body. Although I've heard from some men about their belly-related experiences, I'm not in a position to speak for men's experience.
What I've got to say is pretty much what I've written in the essay titled "What About Men?"
If any man or woman would like to write about this topic in the next issue of The Belly Bulletin, send me your thoughts. Or speak your piece here on the Belly Blog!
I appreciate these questions. What I write follows from what I experience...in a woman's body. Although I've heard from some men about their belly-related experiences, I'm not in a position to speak for men's experience.
What I've got to say is pretty much what I've written in the essay titled "What About Men?"
If any man or woman would like to write about this topic in the next issue of The Belly Bulletin, send me your thoughts. Or speak your piece here on the Belly Blog!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
