explore “places rough to reach”

Posted on Jun 7, 2016

“Here is some sun. Some. Now off into the places rough to reach. Though dry, though drowsy, all unwillingly a-wobble, into the dissonant and dangerous crescendo. Your work, that was done, to be done to be done to be done.” —Gwendolyn Brooks, “To the Diaspora”

embrace what is daunting

Posted on May 27, 2016

“I still remember the shudder when I sensed a knowing as pure as fact—that I might only truly become my fullest self if I explored and stayed open to moving through daunting terrain…I wanted to explore in writing what I was beginning to sense about life—that discoveries, innovations, and creative endeavors often, perhaps even only, come from uncommon ground. In hindsight, I realize that I was focused on improbable rises because...

A New Year, A New AROHO Unfolding

Posted on May 1, 2016

“The New Morrigan,” by Linda Cooper

Posted on Apr 23, 2016

  She’s got a mango cleaved to her chest cavity, juices drowning   the aorta, sweet acidic draining from chamber to vein, and she thinks she’ll   yell, but quietly, into the pillow of her sadness like the feathered ape   who lost a mate and blindly tools some ants onto its tongue. This morning, songbirds   trill the air like a dentist’s drill until a crow caws and caws, silencing   her self-pity. Hops...

Under the Harrow, by Flynn Berry

Posted on Apr 20, 2016

Flynn Berry, who won the Spring 2012 Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize Winner for “Surfing,” will have her debut novel published June 2016 by Penguin. Here is her AROHO Story, and details about her book: I still remember exactly what the genre judge, Celeste Fremon, said about my story, and doubt I’ll ever forget it. It was the first time I’d been published or won a national prize. I read the message from Tracey...