Rita Anderson

Rita Anderson is an internationally-published & and award-winning writer with two graduate degrees in creative writing. She was Poetry Editor of Ellipsis (University of New Orleans), and both of her poetry books: The Entropy of Rocketman (Finishing Line Press) and Watched Pots (A Lovesong to Motherhood) have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in almost 100 literary publications, and Rita won the Houston Poetry Festival, the Gerreighty Prize, the Robert F. Gibbons Poetry Award, the Cheyney Award, and an award from the Academy of American Poets. Contact Rita at her website.
Loss of Child

There Are Angels Among Us

Once upon a time, there was a woman named Maggie Gorishek who—like the children’s book character, Strega Nona—worked in her autumn years, churning and churning,

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Coping With Grief

Two Hawks, Two Yolks

“Now what?” I asked the Chihuahua that twitched at my feet, wrapped around my ankle. “I need to get some work done, and I’m distracted

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