Category Archives: Reading and Writing

A Few #ShortStories for You

Posted on December 15, 2018 by

In September 2017, I enrolled in the University of New Hampshire’s MFA in Writing program with two goals: (1) learn how to write a compelling short story, and (2) learn how to publish short stories.  I have far to go … Continue reading →

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Scarlet Leaf Review

Posted on August 25, 2018 by

Humble gratitude to The Scarlet Leaf Review for publishing my prose poetry in its August 2018 online edition. You can access my page at https://www.scarletleafreview.com/poems14/category/barbara-rath.   Copyright        Disclaimer

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Technology and Creativity

Posted on May 8, 2018 by

Last Autumn, in my first writing workshop, I joked that the difference between a Master of Information Technology and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) is I can do my MFA homework while resting in my hammock. While that statement … Continue reading →

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Poetry’s Sonnet

Posted on November 10, 2017 by

Tonight I was collaborating with former New Hampshire Poet Laureate, Marie Harris, to prepare for her upcoming Webinar about the Prose Poem (Monday at 7 PM–register through the NH Writers’ Project). We discussed various types of poems. She described the … Continue reading →

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An Innocuous Older in the Youngers’ Court

Posted on August 29, 2017 by

According to Ashton Applewhite in This Chair Rocks:A Manifesto Against Ageism, at 5:10 tonight, when I enter my writing class, I will be an “Older”. Older is a relative term; not of bucket into which a person is placed. There are … Continue reading →

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