From Dr Patrick ODougherty November 2021 Miami Book Fair

 Modern and xOTHER RIVERS OF DESIRE

UNDERGROUND FIRE,

Penthouse setting

Ruth Behaur

Richard Blanco

Poetry wants to write poetry

Generous Sandra Cisneros is Martita I remember you

3 woman artists supporting each other and their dreams

80and 90s hollering creek

All of the stories

As if it were a peony 

Slow travel too much

Uninterrupted block of time for writing

Mexico lacks money

Endure a lot the man who makes donuts

Cooperating together

Beautiful things

Martita

Book of poetry

Be contemplative

Nun friends down the street 

Return to poetry

Poetry is the most sacred

Ouija board is writing a poem

Counted Poems

Talking schools

Ministry work

Baylor University

Scary places

Alabama

Baylor a Baptist University

Community

Poetry is of the spirit

Deep meditation and prayer spirit power

Open heart

Vulnerability

A lemon

A Trojan horse

Laugh

Cry 

Think and write

Tenderness between the woman

Brutality

A range in her work looks at the not pretty

Linen background fell

Memories she wishes she could forget

Voice stories

Something real kite string

Truer than her memory

Writing to forget

67 years old this year

Taboos are the strongest

If you don’t write down it never happened

Acne

Paper a stack

Reese’s Peanut butter cups

Period

Bust period

Tampons And utter cups

Penmanship

A box  on Valentine’s Day

Remember their smells

Beautiful people’s list

Hershey’s with Almonds

San Miguel Allende

Cheesy food

Live to write

Books are prison sentences

Sufi

Prison sentence

Mystic 

Monk

Ayn Rand repudiates mysticism

Occult

Nonbelievers a day to believe

Dead are abandoned

See the spirits

Clean with sage

Light

Scared 

A woman without shame

Compliments

Woman shame

Poor

House on :Mango street

Gender

Class

Interloper

Feminist girl

Trajectory

Ashamed

Juvenile 

Loose poems

A judging person

Owning yourself and having no shame

Gettting over shame

We are in love

Cross the sexual lines in the book

Not a novella

Write a thriller novel

Want fiction

Stretch

A novella

Succinctness ofHouse in Mango

street

How did I give birth

Sandra and Jan

Emotionally tall

Bronchitis

Outside on the penthouse

Translated Woman 

Broke many-rules

Small press

Editor needs an editor

Teachers and librarians

Red tailed hawk

Focus on the lineage of women

Intervene rationality

6th grade teacher

Sisters ofChristian Charity

Shy

Doing good

Flower drawing

Cat eye glasses

Drew out something she did well

Literary magazine editor

People who changed her life

Time is a gift

Write or it never happened

Lyric essay class

 Define essay

Opera and singing

Music and musicians

Suite at Chautauqua

Libretto

Derick Berkeley compositions that will be in the opera

Vibrant speaking

art is about kids

Joyeous playful place

Good medicine art