Michael talks with DeMisty Bellinger about learning to read early, taking the love of a literature to a phD, the development of her forthcoming novel NEW TO LIBERTY, her poetry collection PECULIAR HERITAGE, the degree to which all writing is personal, coming to the page to write a poem, writing from reading, and more.
Michael talks with DeMisty Bellinger about learning to read early, taking the love of a literature to a phD, the development of her forthcoming novel NEW TO LIBERTY, her poetry collection PECULIAR HERITAGE, the degree to which all writing is personal, coming to the page to write a poem, writing from reading, and more.
DeMisty Bellinger is the author of the chapbook Rubbing Elbows (Finishing Line Press), the poetry collection Peculiar Heritage (Mason Jar Press), and the forthcoming novel New to Liberty (Unnamed Press), which is now available for preorder. Besides writing, she is a poetry editor at Malarkey Books, an alumni reader at Prairie Schooner, and a professor at Fitchburg State University.
Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.