April 13, 2016
Cowspiracy!
One night last week, when my family was still vegetarian, I went to pick up my daughter Lola from her friend Rio’s house. When I got there, Lola and Rio […]
April 13, 2016
Literary Magic: On Finding a Writing Group
I’m sitting down to write this post an hour after I finished teaching the final class in a community short fiction workshop. It was bittersweet to say goodbye to my […]
April 12, 2016
An Interview with Novelist Virginia Pye, Part 2
Part 2 of the second interview in a series about the intersections of Writing, Teaching, and Identity Virginia Pye’s second novel, Dreams of the Red Phoenix, was published in October by Unbridled Books. Gish Jen called it, “Gripping, […]
April 11, 2016
Cinematic Syntax
I started thinking about poetry and cinema after a visit to artist and filmmaker Karen Yasinsky’s Film & Media Studies class “Poetry and the Moving Image” at Johns Hopkins University. In her […]
April 10, 2016
Editor’s Statement
In the Spring issue of KROnline, we published two poems by John Smelcer, “Smoke Signal” and “Indian Blues.” I appreciate the many readers who have contacted us to point out […]
April 7, 2016
AWP: When Writers Attack
Last week, on a flight from Detroit to Los Angeles, I read Chuck Sambuchino’s When Clowns Attack: A Survival Guide. I was preparing for the AWP Conference—an annual 12,000-person pileup […]
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 […]
April 5, 2016
The Classic Crates Time Capsule: A Proposal
I play it cool I dig all jive That’s the reason I stay alive My motto as I live and learn Is dig and be dug in return —Langston Hughes, […]
April 4, 2016
Why We Chose It
Kevin Young’s poem “Homage to Phillis Wheatley” appears in the Mar/Apr 2016 issue of the Kenyon Review. One aphorism that has always struck me as particularly unfortunate is history is […]
April 4, 2016
An Interview with Novelist Virginia Pye Part 1
Part 1 of the second interview in a series about the intersections of Writing, Teaching, and Identity Virginia Pye’s second novel, Dreams of the Red Phoenix, was published in October by Unbridled Books. Gish Jen called it “[g]ripping, […]
April 3, 2016
Killing the Butterfly: Facing Failure on the Page
Ann Patchett has this wonderful analogy that compares the writing process to murdering a butterfly. I heard her share this in person years ago at one of her events, and […]
April 2, 2016
Sound and Sensibility: or, How to Make Some Noise
My old high school French workbook carried the title Son et sens, or something very close to that, while my English textbook, in an odd coincidence, was called Sound and […]