Rebecca Macijeski

I. I’ve always been a little obsessed with cooking shows and food shows. It comes in waves. Maybe because it’s easier to understand the...

I think about how my brain, sitting there all warm in my head, which I imagine is kind of like a private spa, stays roughly the same size...

My poems live in the pivots, the micro-moments that transition us—in fits and starts—further from ignorance and closer to consciousness.

So I’m setting myself this project again. For as long as it feels fruitful, I will write manifesto after manifesto.

I'm about half-way through. Take a look at what I have so far.

It’s not the crystals in the geode that generate a feeling of wonder, just like it’s not really words that build a poem

I have drafts and revisions piling up again around the house—each sheet of paper or notebook marked with its own incomplete code.

National Novel Month Writing Marathon

I grew up in a small house filled with people and conversations and music and sound. The full noise of eating and talking and Bach and bird

Watson Library, the English Department, and students from across campus came together to participate in two read-out events in observance...

I'm nearing the end of the second week of a new semester. Meeting and working with other writers is a major part of what keeps me...

This summer was another full one. Lots of poem stuff and lots of travel mixed in with some slow living and late nights. I read AP Exams...

This year saw our second annual NSU Summer Creative Writing Camp for local writers aged 10-18. I worked with colleagues Shea Montgomery...

I was excited to support the NSU Demon Writers' Guild at their springtime community reading at the Cane Brake Cafe. Faculty Advisor, Shea...

As part of the National Poem-in-your-Pocket-Day celebration, some colleagues and I from the Department of English, Foreign Languages, and...

This year NSU's LitCon expanded to include participants from around the region in a two-day celebration of all things related to...