September 8, 2017
Mix-Tape II: Through Neon Lens, Darkly
A month before Donald Trump won the election in 2016, Entropy Magazine ran poet and humorist Holly Burdorff’s experimental piece “What Spills Out When Torn in Two // Reality in […]
June 30, 2016
Most People Are Not Your Friends
In the fifth grade, I was friends with a girl on my street. Best friends—though we did not wear those Be Fri / St Ends necklaces—a heart split in two—each […]
June 16, 2016
Expecting Something Else: an interview with poet A.M. O’Malley
Like all great writers, A.M. O’Malley’s work defies easy categorization. She’s a poet who often writes prose; a memoirist who writes such evocative, lyrical passages that they can only be […]
June 13, 2016
Six Hours From Anywhere You Want to Be
Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo, and the Southern Tier all hang onto the moniker of the Northeast by their fingernails. In my short story, “The Half King,” I describe Western New York as “disturbingly […]
June 7, 2016
Poetry is fun, 4 real: On Adam DeGraff’s Wherewithal and Phil Estes’s High Life
For serious writers, writing is worrying about not being read. Although the act in itself has immense power, it’s the proliferation of one’s words beyond herself and her immediate circle […]
May 29, 2016
Know your state poet laureate: Michael Earl Craig, Montana
I was alerted to the fact that Michael Earl Craig was the current Montana Poet Laureate via a Facebook post by the (great) poet Christopher DeWeese (check out his illuminating […]
May 17, 2016
The Power of Ritual and Routine?
What power does ritual and routine hold in a writer’s life? It obviously depends on the writer. “Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition,” wrote W.H. Auden […]
April 7, 2016
Let’s Not and Say We Did: on traveling and literary residencies
“If they told me I couldn’t leave the radius of six miles from my house, I really wouldn’t care. There’s nowhere I really want to go.” Thus saith poet and […]
March 24, 2016
“Perhaps / The truth depends on a walk around a lake”: On Walking and Writing
Wallace Stevens makes an assertion in the opening stanza of the seventh section of his poem “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” that has always stuck with me. It reads, plainly: […]
March 15, 2016
Nothing and Something–an interview with poet Rob MacDonald
As Resuscitation Party is your first full-length collection, I’m curious as to a) how long it took to put together, and b) who you were reading while writing it. Are […]
February 19, 2016
The Art of the Literary Humblebrag
The humblebrag (RIP Harris Wittels) seems to be part of our contemporary culture, but its literary variety is of an ilk slightly different from your normal “I-seriously-need-to-stop-going-to-the-gym-5-days-a-week” kind. For those unfamiliar […]
December 31, 2015
Old Year/New Year: Poems
Woody Guthrie: “Woody Guthrie’s 1943 “New Years Rulin’s.” Found in one of his journals dated January 1st, 1943.” — woodieguthrie.org * Naomi Shihab Nye: Burning the Old Year Letters swallow […]