by Lori DeBoer | Oct 4, 2015
By Lori DeBoer When my son was a toddler, I spent a week in the summer writing program offered by Naropa University. My group was instructed by Bobbie Louise Hawkins, esteemed poet and essayist. I wrote an essay under her direction but it was a little far afoot,...
by Lori DeBoer | Oct 4, 2015
by Lori DeBoer This essay originally appeared in a special edition of the literary magazine Creative Nonfiction, A Million Little Choices: The ABCS of CNF A sixteen-year-old boy, lousy with lust and a certain lassitude, falls in with a fast crowd and, one evening,...
by Lori DeBoer | Oct 4, 2015
Read an excerpt: “I correspond with some members of a group of people afflicted with PPH. One woman lives on a ranch in some Western state, more than an hour’s drive from a doctor, longer from a hospital. She blew a hole in her heart giving birth. The baby is...
by Lori DeBoer | Jan 8, 2015
Essay by Lori DeBoer The famous Moll Flanders seems the most slippery sort of literary character, somehow eluding exposure since she first introduced her “own History” in 1722 under an assumed name in Daniel Defoe’s manuscript. The alias is necessary, she...
by Lori DeBoer | Jan 4, 2015
Essay by Lori DeBoer Janette Turner Hospital’s Borderline opens with a border crossing scene in which a man unnerved about sneaking a bottle of whiskey into Canada commits an act of far greater consequence than bootlegging. He scoops up a Salvadoran refugee, who has...
