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...
A Conversation with pain

A Conversation with pain

by | Dec 23, 2018 | Poetry

Thornton Sully, CEO of A Word With You Press, saw me at one of his writer’s group dinners, and became my friend and mentor, even to the point of prophetically telling me that my husband was “just around the corner.” Now that’s a tale for...

Molding and Miracles

by | May 21, 2016 | Poetry

Wow been so busy these last weeks, and I’m taking a couple courses in TLA so I am creating a lot outside of the poet’s corner. The fruit abounds, and that makes me happy. I am being molded, and I am molding myself. It’s hard work. It’s tiring....
Dead is Not Dead, Nor is it The End of The Story

Dead is Not Dead, Nor is it The End of The Story

by | Apr 2, 2016 | Poetry

Dedicated to Fred Rivera and the power of the written word that rewrote him. Tell yourself the truth. Death never is the end of the story. He wasn’t dead. He was living on the other side of town, or country, or the shadow of my heart. Still breathing, wrapping...

Exposed Nerves

by | Nov 21, 2015 | Uncategorized

Happy Saturday to ya! Here is a Saturday Post!Exposed NervesThere are a lot of feelingsAroundGoing aroundMaking their roundsLike the tideLike the seasonsVisitorsNot residentsEmotionsIn motionLet them comeLet them goAppreciate themMake room for themShare themEvict...