July 31, 2019
The Struggle Between the Visual and Verbal in Robert Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi”
A paradigmatic ekphrastic poem, such as W.H. Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts, with its central description of how the everyday life of the painting goes on as usual in Breughel’s […]
July 31, 2019
VERVE {IN} VERSE: IN CONVERSATION WITH LUPE MENDEZ
Note: Verve {in} Verse is my poet-focused feature here at The Kenyon Review in which I converse with poets about their work and interests both on and off the page. […]
July 30, 2019
A Hunger and a Need: An Interview with Neil Aitken and Dao Strom, Founders of De-Canon
This post is the fourth in a months-long series that explores the topic of craft: what it is, how it has evolved, who has historically had access to it, and […]
July 30, 2019
Publisher Spotlight: Jeffrey Levine of Tupelo Press
Jeffrey Levine is the author of three books of poetry: Rumor of Cortez (Red Hen), nominated for a 2006 Los Angeles Times Literary Award in Poetry, Mortal, Everlasting (Pavement Saw […]
July 29, 2019
Interview with Preti Taneja
Preti Taneja teaches writing in prisons and universities. She is the 2019 UNESCO Fellow in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia, a Leverhulme Research Fellow in writing and […]
July 27, 2019
Verve {in} Verse: In Conversation with Jasminne Mendez
Note: Verve {in} Verse is my poet-focused feature here at The Kenyon Review in which I converse with poets about their work and interests both on and off the page. […]
July 26, 2019
On the Importance of the Authorial Voice
In his book The Art of Perspective, part of Graywolf Press’s series of craft books on writing (which I’ve written about a few times before on this blog), Christopher Castellani […]
July 24, 2019
Organic Choreography: An Interview with Jane Alison, Author of Meander, Spiral, Explode
This post is the third in a months-long series that explores the topic of craft: what it is, how it has evolved, who has historically had access to it, and […]
July 23, 2019
Flannery O’Connor and Kierkegaard
What could make a woman resign herself to her own death and that of her family? The answer to this question emerges through reading southern writer Flannery O’Connor and the […]
July 23, 2019
Mix-Tape VII: All the Eguanas for What We Can’t Say
There are things happening right now in many families, like my own, too painful to share. So I will share this instead: My husband B spells iguana with an “E.” […]
July 19, 2019
A Day in the Life of a Teacher-Writer-Parent
[Pictured above: The Teacher-Writer-Parent wearing the huge, blueberry-like “Thinking Cap” her son made to “help her think of really good writing.”] 5:30 a.m.—Woken up by the five-year-old boy sitting on […]
July 16, 2019
On Writing as Wish Fulfillment
I was in elementary school when I first started “writing” stories—I would take the Hot Wheels toy cars I’d collected since I was a toddler, name them all after my […]