Great Regulars: I took that connection as my challenge

in writing "Turning." How can I help readers find meaning in a personal recollection? What is the larger story that the memory enacts? That we are capable of awe and cruelty? That the human capacity and hunger for joy is our best achievement? Trying to answer these questions helped me shape a childhood memory into a conversation with readers and with the past. In "Turning," what could be a simple retelling is expanded by making the beetle a larger metaphor, by re-imagining memory through concrete detail and by addressing the readers directly.

from The Washington Post: Poet's Choice: 'Turning' By Janice Harrington

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