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...
Happy Birthday, Bob!
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We’d be remiss to leave off without giving birthday wishes to Robert
Creeley, who would have been 87 today. We have poems galore here to
celebrate, and oth...
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
The Audio Series: Alina Simone
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Our new audio series "*The Authors Read. We Listen.*" is an incredibly
special one for us. Hatched in a NYC club during BEA week, this feature
requires ...
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...
Prose of the Trans-Canada
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Gary Barwin has just posted an essay on my “Prose of the Trans-Canada” on
Jacket2: “derek beaulieu’s Prose of the Trans-Canada is an epic inscribed
scroll,...
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...
Imagine you are your main character (or just write from your own
perspective). What do you really, really want? Now, start talking about
that object of d...
First Nation Communities Read has revealed Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse
(Douglas & McIntyre) as the winner of the annual community-reading program.
Chos...
James Franco, whose Faulkner adaptation for the big-screen, "As I Lay
Dying," is playing at Cannes, discusses his love of Faulkner and his
ability to handl...
The Fiddlehead's Spring 2013 issue includes the winners and pieces of their 22nd Annual Contest:
Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize:
Kim Trainor, Cradle Song: Si...
A tweet from the Swedish Academy has unleashed a flood of speculation about
the five writers they are considering - could it be Don Delillo's year, or
pe...
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...
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