Category: Travel Writing by Women

Book Review: Poet Diana Raab’s Listening to Africa

Book Review: Poet Diana Raab’s Listening to Africa

Each poet’s voice is as unique as they are, and poems within a collection are varied too, like a region’s weather, with trends and ranges, but ultimately, hopefully, both predictable and unpredictable. Diana M. Raab’s fourth collection of poetry was rich in variety of styles, common threads, and the unpredicted. Listening to Africa emerged during [...]

May 30, 2012 | 3 Comments More
Deer in the Headlights: A Marketing Pro Self-Publishes

Deer in the Headlights: A Marketing Pro Self-Publishes

I should have known. In the passions of finally committing myself to the authorship of a book, one I knew from the beginning I would not shop with literary agents or publishing houses, I utterly failed myself in not treating my book, All That I Need, or Live Like a Dog With Its Head Out the [...]

April 20, 2012 | 2 Comments More
The Writer’s Ear: Hearing Prose, Poetry and Music

The Writer’s Ear: Hearing Prose, Poetry and Music

UK Author Jo Carroll very kindly responded to our question about how poetry and prose influenced each other in your writing. I have a diffuse boundary between poetry and prose. I know that one informs the other, but I’ve never tried to define that, nor explain it – even to myself – in a coherent [...]

February 11, 2012 | 1 Comment More