It is the first month of school and even after fifteen years of this routine, September still feels like the actual New Year for those...
Archive for tag: writing
Meet the Charrettes
Some years ago, a poet friend who had moved away was back in Cambridge for a visit and invited a few friends to meet up...
Failing at Subjects: The Poetics of the Living Idea
I am not not an academic; and I am not not a failure. These double negatives vibrate for me, which is a way of saying...
AWP Women’s Caucus Reading
Kick off AWP 2017 with The AWP Women’s Caucus! Join us at the famed Busboys and Poets: 5th & K (1025 5th Street NW, Washington, DC) for...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Michael Wasson
What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? Because of...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
What advice do you have for young and emerging writers, particularly of marginalized identities? What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? I think the best...
VIDA Reads with Writers — Shanna Compton!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am finally reading Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (on the last...
Report from the Field: This Voice of Mine
Eleven years ago I sat at a table in a writing studio in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, rented by a professor I’ll call Mr. D, and...
¿Para Quién Escribes?
The mediated Western world so disorients us that a conversation addressing our own eroded cognition is itself bound to be emblematic of that erosion. Sight...
VIDA Reads with Writers — Melissa Chadburn!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’m slutting out on all sorts of books right now. I’m reading Meredith...