Posts by Deidre Farrington Schoolcraft

Deidre Farrington Schoolcraft

Deidre is an English Professor (currently the Writing Program Chair) at Pikes Peak Community College. She is also a writer, political junkie, mother to a four-year-old, wife, aging GenXer, and bass player in training, not necessarily in that order.

by Deidre Farrington Schoolcraft
June 22, 2015
in Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Perspective for Hire, Weekly Features
tags Deidre Farrington Schoolcraft, Memoir, Perspective for Hire, The Visitor, Weekly Features
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The Visitor

by Deidre Farrington Schoolcraft
June 22, 2015
in Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Perspective for Hire, Weekly Features
tags Deidre Farrington Schoolcraft, Memoir, Perspective for Hire, The Visitor, Weekly Features
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She comes to us in late summer, a starving creature with tattered tail and dull coat. My four-year-old squats down beside her, and she scuttles close to him, her tiny nose taking in his scent. She raises to her haunches, and looks at him with big eyes. “Be careful. She’s a wild animal. You don’t know what she’ll do.” Rabies! I think. She has Rabies or Lyme disease! She will

by Deidre Farrington Schoolcraft
May 7, 2014
in Creative Writing, Poetry
tags Deidre Farrington Schoolcraft, Gender, I Wake Up Angry with Raymond Carver, Poetry
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I Wake Up Angry with Raymond Carver: For Maryann Burk Carver

by Deidre Farrington Schoolcraft
May 7, 2014
in Creative Writing, Poetry
tags Deidre Farrington Schoolcraft, Gender, I Wake Up Angry with Raymond Carver, Poetry
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I wake up angry with Raymond Carver (whom I love, who is long dead and cannot suffer my anger, cannot even pour me gin or offer cigarettes), for bestowing literary domain on Tess Gallagher. Tess had nothing to do with it. She showed up late to his curly, black hair and meticulous prose. It was Maryann, who traded her sixteen to his nineteen, Who bore his babies—the ones with the