“Fairytale” “Fairytale” was written shortly after I had given birth to my son. My body was feeling particularly disconnected from the stories I had grown up learning in a fundamentalist Christian household. So I used the poem to turn towards the myths that I was learning for the first time—the ancient Irish myths—where Morrigu, goddess […]
I received two awards in 2023 with the New Mexico Press Women (NMPW) Communications Contest: First Prize, Personal Web Site (Home of The Writing Shed), March 2023 Third Prize, Blog “Confess Already . . .,” March 2023 The NMPW “inspires and celebrates professional communication.” It was a joy and honor to enter the contest and […]
“Shadow Poem from the Holy Rosary” This is a poem dedicated to my grandmother Peg. I remember visiting her home in Linden, New Jersey. Most days, she was sitting at her dining room table and praying the rosary. For some reason, I always associated this act of prayer as very solemn, sad, and an embodiment […]
CNM English program instructor Dr. Jessica Maggie Brophy knows that students deal with a lot of stress at the end of each term. That’s why Jessica worked with Wellness CNM to create a journaling workshop at the end of this month that will help students end the term in a focused and calm way. Read […]
This article on Paulette Childress White (1948–) is published in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (2007). White is an American poet from Michigan. She stated in Contemporary Authors Online 2002: “I write from a sense of irony, because I want to make sense of my experience of life. I am also a painter. I write and paint because I have a need to give substance to my ideas, feelings, and experiences, and because I believe it is good and important work.”
Lotus Press, a non-profit literary organization, still publishes both of White’s major works of poetry—Love Poem to a Black Junkie (1975) and The Watermelon Dress: Portrait of a Woman (1983). White’s short story, “Getting the Facts of Life” (1989) was anthologized in three different publications from 1991-1993.