Author: Rebecca Smolen

Rebecca is a Portland-based writer who works as a veterinary technician by day. She grew up on a dead-end road in NH exploring drainage pipes and pond-life. She leads generative writing workshops using the Gateless Method and views inspiration and writing as a form of healing. Rebecca has a strong feminist voice occasionally trapped within society’s confines, but vows to teach her son and daughter there are no confines. You can find her poetry in the Poeming Pigeon, The Inflectionist Review, Unchaste Anthology, Mutha Magazine, chapbook, Womanhood and Other Scars and forthcoming this year, Excoriation, a full-length manuscript from PoetryBox.

write through this with me

August 22, 2020August 22, 2020 Rebecca Smolen

when you write it down write it heart-loud write it first in burgundy like the blood that pulses through each of our veins, insecure it waits there in the quiver of the readying call-to-action that trauma throws into motion—it’s the healing write through this with me take a Read more