Work by Cassie Premo Steele

  1. Literary Mamas

    Posted in Gossip!, November 2009

    I write a col­umn on “Birthing the Mother Writer” at Literary Mama and also lead a local writ­ing group for writ­ing moth­ers. I’m happy to report that after gen­er­a­tions of “Virginias” (women writ­ers who sac­ri­ficed being moth­ers and them­selves) and “Sylvias” (mother writ­ers who sac­ri­ficed them­selves), this gen­er­a­tion of mother writ­ers is alive and kicking.

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  2. Storm Lesson

    Posted in Poetry, November 2009

    I try to tell you how the shack has blown over in the wind, how I found it when I was wan­der­ing with no lan­guage and how I tried to get in but there was no door, just as there is no door to you now. There are some peo­ple who are no more than an [...]

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