July 15, 2019
Verve {in} Verse: In Conversation with Emilia Phillips
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 12, 2019
So That’s How You Do It: An Interview with Michael Noll, Author of The Writer’s Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction
This post is the second 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 11, 2019
Publisher Spotlight: Rose Solari of Alan Squire Publishing
Rose Solari is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, The Last Girl, Orpheus in the Park, and Difficult Weather, the one-act play, Looking for Guenevere, and the novel, A […]
July 9, 2019
On Reading Your Work Out Loud
When I wrote my first novel, Portrait of Sebastian Khan, I often worked in cafes, if I was lucky at a corner table where I could angle my screen away […]
July 8, 2019
“The improvisational quality of writing”: A Conversation with Ruth Danon
Ruth Danon is the author of WORD HAS IT (Nirala, 2018), LIMITLESS TINY BOAT (BlazeVOX, 2015), and much earlier TRIANGULATION FROM A KNOWN POINT (North Star Line, 1990.) For 23 […]
July 5, 2019
Craft Is Not Monolithic: An Interview with Luisa A. Igloria and Amanda Galvan Huynh, Editors of Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making
Earlier this year, I embarked on one of the single most important endeavors of my literary career thus far: an interview series with the authors and editors of craft books. […]
July 4, 2019
Detroit, 1969
Hamburgers and watermelon. Mad Dog 20/20 on boyfriend Phil’s breath. That summer, Marsha and I sold Black Panther Party newspapers downtown, hustling in front of Hudson’s like the revolutionary vanguard […]
July 3, 2019
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry – July
Sometimes a mismatched couple wanders by, and the whispers begin before they’ve even passed. Meanwhile, they stroll on, blissfully unaware, as if they were the most obvious pair in the […]
July 1, 2019
“Don’t Be Coy”: A Chat With Keri Smith and Thomas Moody of Hanging Loose Press
I recently spoke with Thomas Moody and Keri Smith about the editorial work they do for Hanging Loose Press, an indie publisher with an amazing literary history. Hanging Loose has […]
June 29, 2019
“I start from a place of extreme openness”: A Conversation with Cassandra Cleghorn
Cassandra Cleghorn’s Four Weathercocks was published in 2016 by Marick Press. Her poems and reviews have appeared in journals including Paris Review, Yale Review, Poetry International, Colorado Review, Boston Review, Field and […]
June 28, 2019
Checking Your Pedagogical Receipts
Lesson planning is by nature a fraught endeavor. It necessitates thinking not just about the content of the class but the shape of the course as a whole, the juxtaposition […]
June 27, 2019
Amie Souza Reilly Recommends: “A Gift Basket for Budding Feminists”
Amie Souza Reilly teaches in the English Department at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. She is the Feminist Fridays blogger at The Adroit Journal and publishes creative nonfiction and […]