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Storage Spaces

It’s early Wednesday morning. I wait for my teenagers to be dressed and ready, so I can drive them to school. I sit on my couch and look around the room. Surrounded by books, magazines, old comics, raincoats, clay figurines from third-grade art class, pictures, shoes, a pile of unread New York Times Magazines, even…

SNAPDRAGON LIVE: Benefit Open Mic for Snapdragon & Living Beyond Breast Cancer

On Sunday, June 4 from 2:00-4:00 pm EST, I will host SNAPDRAGON LIVE, a virtual open mic for those impacted by breast cancer.  Bring your story or poem of healing. Bring your story of rage. Bring your story of unexpected grief, joy, or kindness. Come to support a friend or family member. Come to listen.…

Anne Boyer’s The Undying: A Poet’s Novel About Breast Cancer

“Breast cancer is a disease that presents itself as a disordering question of form” (7) begins  Anne Boyer’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer and Care. An essayist and poet, Boyer has written an emotionally and intellectually challenging novel about her diagnosis at 41 with triple-negative…

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