Poetry et Le E-book Revolution
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‘Tis happening, friends! Not only are your favorite fiction and non-fiction
books available in electronic formats—but now—your favorite books of poetry
are...
Balloon
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The phenakistoscope is built on a succession of formal symmetries that,
once activated, produce a narrative. In yesterday's example the narrative
is a su...
Austin Islam
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"A Tumblr Note" by Austin Islam
Austin Islam can be found when the sun cannot. His writing is sometimes
quippy, sometimes pensive, sometimes self-induge...
Visual Poetry at the CCWWP
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Mount Royal University student Andrea Johnston has just posted a brief
article on the challenges of close-reading visual poetry at the Canadian
Creative Wr...
Kate Greenstreet, Young Tambling
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It was in the mountains.
She got hit my lightning, and wandered for a while.
Only one thing disappeared.
– Do you think of poetry as useful?
– Yes, it...
Where Writers Write: Kevin Haworth
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Welcome to another installment of TNBBC's Where Writers Write!
*Where Writers Write* is a weekly series that will feature a different
author every Wedn...
Do What Works
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*There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that
the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and
fo...
Wall of Miracles
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So here's a cool thing that happened recently. Through expat poet Suzanne Steele, I heard about a call for submissions for a project at the University of Exe...
Contributor Spotlight: David Ryan
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“The Man with the Boat” is a chapter from a novel-in-progress whose idea came from a conversation about the worst jobs a friend and I’d ever had. Jobs so bad...
The Tax Moan
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The growing realisation that the key figures of our Online-Digital Age -
Google, Amazon, and Apple - have made hundreds of billions of dollars in
profit fr...
The Rotary Dial: The Indestructible Old Man
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The Rotary Dial is a downloadable journal edited by Alexandra Oliver, and
I’m glad to say the May issue has a poem of mine called The Indestructible
Old Ma...
Four Sentences
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Someone becomes an artist because at some point in their life someone,
implicitly or explicitly, gave them permission to make art.
We need an accur...
How to love your own book
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Past. As I’m recording1 this blog post I realize that I really, really
don’t like using this space to relate news, ...
Continue reading
Joelle Fraser & the Return to Memoir
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photo: JoelleFraser.com In The Forest House, Joelle Fraser writes about
life after the breakup of her marriage, when she moved to a remote town in
Californ...
Voyeur (after Mary Ruefle)
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I have become an orca
washed up like a salty white bitch.
Mammaries,
how do they make them now...
so squeezable–
in this life, I'm already so wasted,
and ...
The Story of My Accident is Ours
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Just released by Futurepoem, Rachel Levitsky’s The Story of My Accident Is
Ours blends the novel, essay, and serial form into a rich site for assaying
the ...
Ex Machina in its second printing!
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BookThug just confirmed that Ex Machina went into its second printing
earlier this year! Kids, next time somebody tells you that nobody wants to
read a lon...
Judson Mitcham
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Judson Mitcham's work has appeared in many journals, including *Poetry*, *Georgia
Review*, *Hudson Review*, and *Harper's*. He has published three
collect...
"You don’t look contemporary to me….."
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If you have a programmatic critical reading of what’s happening now, that
defines itself by virtue of your agenda to promote a certain kind of
writing o...
Down in the depths
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A tweet from August C. Bourré (@FishSauce) earlier today sent me on a hunt
for the review I wrote of Warren Ellis’s debut novel, Crooked Little Vein,
which...
Evan Smith Rakoff
A documentary about the life and work of George Plimpton is out today; a
lost novel manuscript by Pearl Buck was found in a Texas s...
This might be the best attempt yet to film Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Which
is not to say this is a good film
Writing about Baz Luhrmann's Gatsby in relat...
RHINO's 2013 issue features the winners of the Editors' Prizes for 2013:
First Prize: Rodney Gomez – "Drag Racer"
Second Prize: Kristin Robertson – "Hyoid...
Arts Council England's recent funding decisions—which increased writer
development but slashed funding to a slew of small presses and literary
festivals—...
I’m having the usual morning after access of amazement and wonder when I
look back over the contents of the current issue. Where did all this
strange, beau...
Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill presents poems from each of John F Deane’s
previous five Carcanet collections alongside the substantial new title
sequence. T...
It helps that she’s pretty.
but it helps more if you aren’t
And really, who has seen the wind except under a microscope of black storm?
Who is exposed, lon...
The new issue of Verse (Vol 29 #s 2 & 3) is out, with portfolios of poetry
and fiction by
Joanna Howard
Jasmine Dreame Wagner
Sarah Goldstein
Shannon Tharp...
Alright, Descanters, it’s time to come out of hibernating — in one month!
And what better excuse than the launch party for Descant’s spring issue The
Hidde...
