April 20, 2018
“Memory as Missionary Position” and Other Works by Queer Indigenous Women Poets
Over at Lithub, Natalie Diaz curates a beautiful bi-monthly series of work by queer Indigenous women poets. She introduces this installment with the hope that it will function like Mojave […]
April 1, 2018
On Writing, Workshop & Mental Health: A Roundtable (Part 3)
As a poet, I don’t like being told to abide by certain rules in poetry; whenever someone comes out with a list, say, of words that poets should never use, […]
February 21, 2018
If Tomorrow You’d Awaken as The Bloody Hooves
“Yours is the name the leaves chatter at the edge of the unrabbited woods.” “Dear One Absent This Long While,” —Lisa Olstein 1. If tomorrow you awaken as a horse, […]
February 20, 2018
Where Writing Takes Us
I dreamt I was attending a writing residency in a stately, ancient house on a hill. As I walked the grounds to absorb the beauty, I kept thinking, Everyone says […]
December 13, 2017
Power and Powerlessness in Kristen Roupenian’s Cat Person
In addition to how Kristen Roupenian’s “Cat Person” (the New Yorker short story that has recently gone viral) resonates with the #MeToo movement, what struck me about it was the nuance of […]
November 30, 2017
Because That’s Real Life: An Evening with Margaret Atwood
On November 16, Margaret Atwood, the grande dame of all things literary (and of dystopian nightmares that have revealed themselves to be unnervingly prescient) graced Cleveland with her presence at […]
September 15, 2017
Reading Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark After Charlottesville
As someone who teaches literature post-Charlottesville (and everything else), I felt it was an important time to revisit Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination […]
July 26, 2017
NSFW: On “Hysterical Literature,” Leaves of Grass, and the Sexy Reading Movement
Somewhere in the foggy realm between performance art and porno, on a YouTube channel where a poem drives up page views, a woman reads aloud from a paperback book. She […]
July 20, 2017
Interview with Joy Harjo about Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
How did you come to the idea for your book, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, that humans were made from a mistake—in that some have forgotten how to be human […]
June 22, 2017
Minor League Season Begins—Again
People asked Ron Shelton, again and again, if he was going to write a sequel to Bull Durham. He couldn’t bring himself to do it, and I’m glad he didn’t. […]
June 5, 2017
Touchscreen Headstone: Speculations on the Digital Afterlife
“Eterni.me wants to rely on the real substance of twenty-first-century life: online activity. There are other companies that offer related services: Legacy Locker and Entrustnet allow users to nominate an […]
March 10, 2017
Uniting for Writing
At its Feb. 7 meeting in New York, the Kenyon Review Board of Trustees approved a proposal from Kenyon College to incorporate management of the Kenyon Institute and its programs […]