Page as Stage
The author of fox woman get out! explores the connections between poetry and dance.
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Article Archive
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Ten Questions for Melissa Rivero
“Writing kept me grounded, but it also reopened some wounds.” —Melissa Rivero, author of Flores and Miss Paula
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The Poetics of Temperature
The author of fox woman get out! offers a climatic approach to reading and writing verse.
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Ten Questions for James W. Jennings
“I struggled with the urge to tame my voice.” —James W. Jennings, author of Wings of Red
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The Myth of Realism: Belief and Incredulity in Fiction
The author of The Last Language explores the relationship between individual subjectivity and the ability to suspend disbelief when reading fiction.
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Ten Questions for Kimberly Grey
“I’m very much a write-when-it-comes kind of writer.” —Kimberly Grey, author of A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing
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Hearing Voices: Characterization and Language
The author of The Last Language considers the relationship between character and speech.
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Ten Questions for Subhaga Crystal Bacon
“It’s okay for you to reveal more of yourself in your poetry.” —Subhaga Crystal Bacon
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Withholding and Revelation: Managing Information in Fiction
The author of The Last Language considers how to strike the right note of ambiguity in a novel.
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Ten Questions for Sigrid Nunez
“Never assume the reader is not as intelligent as you are.” —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Vulnerables
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Ten Questions for Jim Redmond
“Write toward what you want to discover.” —Jim Redmond, author of Because You Previously Liked or Played
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Write Like a Translator
The translator of Luis Felipe Fabre’s Recital of the Dark Verses shares lessons from translation that can improve all creative prose.
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Ten Questions for Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones
“I was writing this hybrid lyric thing that was hard to fall into a rhythm with at first.” —Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones, author of The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History
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In Bad Faith: Notes on Fidelity in Translation
The translator of Luis Felipe Fabre’s Recital of the Dark Verses considers the nuances of crafting a faithful translation.
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Ten Questions for Curtis Chin
“Have fun. Make friends.” —Curtis Chin, author of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
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Dis-identity Poetics
The author of Recital of the Dark Verses explores poetry and translation as an encounter with “the Other.”
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5 Over 50: 2023
Essays by debut authors Alma García (All That Rises), Bernardine “Dine” Watson (Transplant), Tommy Archuleta (Susto), Chin-Sun Lee (Upcountry), and Donna Spruijt-Metz (General Release From the Beginning of the World).
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Weathering the Storms
Flooding devastated parts of Vermont in July, including literary organizations and businesses that are now relying on community support as they rebuild and confront more frequent extreme weather events brought on by climate change.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Orders of Service: A Fugue by Willie Lee Kinard III and I Would Meet You Anywhere by Susan Kiyo Ito.
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Best American High School Writing
DePaul University’s Blue Book anthology showcases the work of talented teen writers, offering an intimate glimpse into their varied lived experiences and illustrating the transformative power of written expression.
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Small Press Points: Get Fresh Books
Founded to support the work of marginalized poets, Get Fresh Books publishes one to three poetry collections each year, selecting manuscripts from a pool of no-fee submissions and solicited work.
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Authors Take On AI, File Lawsuits
To mimic human writing, AI technologies have been consuming millions of pages of copyrighted literature. Authors have filed several class-action lawsuits accusing AI companies of illicitly using their work and seeking compensation.
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The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections
An introduction to three new anthologies, including Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance and Black Punk Now: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Comics.
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Literary MagNet: Mira Rosenthal
The translator of Tomasz Różycki’s To the Letter discusses the journals where she first placed poems from the book—including Cagibi and Guernica—and the unique process of publishing translated work.
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The Written Image: The Comfort of Crows
Artist Billy Renkl recounts his painstaking process for constructing the mixed-media collages that accompany the essays in his sister Margaret Renkl’s new book, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year.
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