Elizabeth Ann Dark is a writer from Nashville, Tennessee. Currently she lives in Mount Vernon, Ohio where she works at Paragraphs Bookstore and teaches writing courses at Mount Vernon Nazarene University. Her essays have appeared in Ruminate Magazine, Blue Bear Review and Penmarks Journal. Her essay "If You Want It to Last . . ." received second place in Ruminate Magazine's 2015 Vandermey Nonfiction Prize. While pursuing her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Ashland University, she is completing a book of essays.
Today is not a day “added” onto every fourth calendar year. It is always there. We just have trouble figuring out how to make room for it.
Regardless of the course title, I try to read a poem aloud at the beginning of every class I teach. Some of my college freshmen love this, but most probably don’t. Like me at their age, they do not carry poetry around in their heads to help them make sense of what is happening around them. Yet
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.” Ursula K. LeGuin, Left Hand of Darkness
Elizabeth Dark Wiley’s interview with Andrew Hendrixson…
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