Maria D. Laso is Editor-in-Chief of chixLIT: the literary Ezine for girls 7-17. The magazine's mission is to let girls know that words are powerful and can make them powerful, too. ChixLIT encourages girls to share their writing and to learn more about the craft.
In May, I posted an article called “Coaxing Imaginative Awareness,” in which I reviewed Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry by Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser. After reading the review, some Writing It Real subscribers teamed up to work on creating braided verse inspired by the results of these two poets. One of these teams, … Continue reading →
When I was a girl of 10 and already a writer in my own mind, I was frustrated that no one took my writing seriously. I nevertheless decided that I would be a Rhodes Scholar and a winner of a Pulitzer and a Nobel by the time I was 30, at which point I would … Continue reading →