Susan Azar Porterfield

Every Mother's Day, millions of Americans take Mom to brunch. Kids try to repay a year of home-cooked meals with breakfast in bed. And those remembering a…

The next four years will be very good for poetry.That's according to Susan Azar Porterfield, who says our nation's current political divisions echo…

Pick up WNIJ's book bag and turn it over. What falls out?Two novels, one book of poems, and a story collection -- all by northern Illinois writers.Each…

Am I a fraud?It’s the question most every poet asks … a “look in the mirror under florescent lights” kind of thing, a scrutiny fueled by fear and…

Susan Azar Porterfield is the author of the poetry collection Kibbe.Recently two of her poems were accepted for publication in the prestigious Barrow…

Poet Susan Azar Porterfield remembers meeting a Syrian family in Beirut. She was visiting Lebanon during a period of peace, in 2003.The Syrians were brand…