February 4, 2019
Go Where You Love: Claudia Rankine on Poetry & Privilege
When Ohio Poet Laureate (and KR Blog contributor) Dave Lucas learned he would be moderating a conversation with poet Claudia Rankine, he contacted a friend for advice. “OH MY GOD,” […]
February 4, 2019
Jay Martin Wins Young Poet’s Prize
Congratulations to Jay Martin, a junior at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, in Greenville, South Carolina, who took first place in KR’s Patricia Grodd Poetry […]
January 31, 2019
On the Epistolary Form and Writing Letters About Your Imagined Writing
So often I give my students the advice I need to hear myself. This week I assigned them to write someone a letter about the piece they wanted to compose […]
January 30, 2019
On Elisa Gabbert’s Lydia Davis and Completeness
I like to finish things, which is a failure; as James Richardson maintains in one of his (amazing) aphorisms, all stones are broken stones and to pretend otherwise is willful folly. I’ve […]
January 29, 2019
On Subtlety and Meaning in Fiction
When I was a freshman in college, I took my first creative writing class, a small two week workshop that was part of a summer study abroad program. For the […]
January 28, 2019
Both Genres Depend on High Stakes: A Conversation with Erica Wright on Poetry and Crime Fiction
Erica Wright writes both poetry and crime fiction. Wright’s first crime novel was one of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Best Books for Summer 2014, and her most recent work of […]
January 25, 2019
THE PAGE AS A VISUAL FIELD: NEW BOOKS BY ASIYA WADUD, GRACIE LEAVITT, & EVE EWING
IN A RECENT ISSUE OF THE AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, Carol Ann Johnston notes that “The early avant-garde’s play with poetic language as visual art grasped the change in poetic emphasis […]
January 23, 2019
On Borges’s “The Secret Miracle”
For many writers, nothing is more exciting than seeing in some work of fiction, be it a short story or a novel or a play or even a movie, a […]
January 22, 2019
Accepted
Literary rejection can appear at any time, like magic. I’ve been rejected early in the morning while shivering at the bus stop. I’ve woken in the middle of the night […]
January 18, 2019
Tully: Savoir Mermaids and “the Wild Heart that Still Beats Inside the Docile Cow” of the Mother
[Spoiler Alert] At the simplest level, Jason Reitman’s Tully tells the tale of Marlo’s (Charlize Theron) struggle with the arrival of her third child and consequent hiring of a night […]
January 17, 2019
“What’s at stake is the production of knowledge”: A Conversation with Chris Campanioni
Chris Campanioni is a first-generation American and the son of immigrants from Cuba and Poland. He has worked as a journalist, model, and actor, and today teaches Latinx literature and creative writing […]
January 16, 2019
On the Creative Value of Unproductive Time
There’s a scene in the fifth episode of the third season of Mad Men in which Lane Pryce, one of the new managers in charge of the company’s finances, complains […]