AWWYP Author Spotlight- Tiffany Vakilian!

AWWYP Author Spotlight- Tiffany Vakilian!

by | Mar 30, 2019 | Poetry, Work

I published Ugly Drawers, Pretty Panties, my first book of poetry, as an expression of narrative medicine, autoethnography, and catharsis. Doing so was both humbling and freeing. A Word With You Press, my publisher, interviewed me as part of an author spotlight. You...

Remembering the First Time

by | Apr 9, 2016 | Poetry

I write the story that drives me…not in detail, but in the way of being free to write and share. Marking time, this time, I remember when I started writing this blog. This blog has transformed me. I remember who I was. I have transformed my house. I am still...

Prosed Trio

by | Mar 28, 2015 | Poetry

Hey Hey! Here’s a Saturday post!4/27/09   This is my dowry. I am a wife, and my words are my proof of the paid bride-price. I write love because I am a lover. I have tried being not me, and it poisons. My words offer healing from my precious,...

Me As A Day

by | Mar 21, 2015 | Poetry

From 1997 with love, here is your Saturday post!Breathe me in like the morningTake me into youLet me watch you sleepingSo I’m the one you wake up tooHave me as a dayWake up to my sunshineMy rays of warmth and loveSee my ethereal beautyGiven by God aboveHave me...

Freak of Nature Friends o’ Mine

by | Mar 14, 2015 | Poetry

Hello there! Here’s your Saturday post!From 2009I keep reaching new heights.I keep refusing average.I haveneverbeen average.[In 2009]I willprove this fact.I must now find andcelebrate my other fabulousfreak of nature...