Naming the Apophatic: The Poetics of Not Knowing
The author of Yaguareté White contemplates how to approach writing in multiple languages.
Tags:
Tags: language
Hearing Voices: Characterization and Language
The author of The Last Language considers the relationship between character and speech.
Tags:
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.
Tags:
The Accidental Poetry of Ninety-Nine-Cent Stores
The author of peep finds poetic surprises in the workaday language of commerce and culture.
Tags:
Vernacular Currency
The author of What Can I Tell You?: Selected Poems explores the poetic potential of vernacular language.
Tags:
Ten Questions for Will Alexander
“Let your sense of language dawn of its own accord.” —Will Alexander, author of Divine Blue Light: For John Coltrane
Tags:
Ten Questions for Nina Mingya Powles
“I was surprised by my own tendency to write longer and longer lines and to frequently slip into prose poems.” —Nina Mingya Powles, author of Magnolia 木蘭
Tags:
Ten Questions for Angel Dominguez
“How do you navigate a life in opposition to and in spite of systemic racism, with poetry?” —Angel Dominguez, author of Desgraciado
Tags:
Craft Capsule: Translating Monozygotic Triplets
The translator of Migratory Birds and Permafrost shares how growing up between different languages and countries has led her to challenge conventional wisdom about the art of translation.
Tags:
Ten Questions for Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
“Show up no matter what so your writing knows you are there.” —Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, author of Savage Tongues
Tags:
Pages
