February 20, 2019
Poet to Poet Interview: Rajiv Mohabir and Craig Santos Perez
Rajiv Mohabir is the author of The Cowherd’s Son (Tupelo Press, 2017, winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize) and The Taxidermist’s Cut (Four Way Books, 2016, winner of the Four […]
February 18, 2019
Multimedia Creative Writing and Having Students Teach Students
This week in my experimental creative writing class, we learned about using Twine, a tool for creating interactive, nonlinear stories. Fans of hypertext writing will enjoy this open-source method for […]
February 14, 2019
“The impossible becomes possible with hybrid forms”: A Conversation with Katie Farris
Katie Farris is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and translator. She is the author of the hybrid-form text boysgirls, (Marick Press, 2011) and the chapbooks Thirteen Intimacies (Fivehundred Places, 2017), […]
February 13, 2019
On George Orwell and Sensory Detail in Writing
In a previous blog post on long sentences, I critiqued George Orwell’s famous essay “Politics and the English Language,” specifically because I felt its list of rules was too restrictive, […]
February 12, 2019
How To Be An Adjunct Professor
1. As you will most likely not have an office, it’s wise to learn now how to pitch a sturdy tent or erect a yurt. 2. It also helps to […]
February 11, 2019
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry – February
It’s happening again. Even as we speak, elsewhere—in a college dorm, maybe, or some recess of the internet—a word is changing. Just as “cool” evolved in African-American jazz circles of the […]
February 11, 2019
Literary Nightmares
Dropbox limit has been reached Laptop battery dies Internet goes down House somehow already clean so nothing to distract from writing People who ask how’s the novel coming along People […]
February 5, 2019
Mina Loy’s Poetics of Rupture & Resistance: A Retrospective
Grammar as Causation and Ideology During her lifetime, Mina Loy was active as a painter, actress, writer, poet, and proponent of the decorative arts. Although working across genres and mediums, […]
February 5, 2019
Mixtape VI: The Aha Moment & When It Switches {On}
After taking some time away from this space to complete a few projects, I thought what better way to return than to share a new mixtape for a new […]
February 4, 2019
The Rigorous Fluidity of Keith S. Wilson
Maybe the best way to talk about Keith S. Wilson’s multi-faceted inventiveness would be to create an alternative-reality game in which a poet-hero propels himself through galaxies that he spins […]
February 4, 2019
Why We Chose It
“You Are Here,” by Lia Greenwell, appears in the Jan/Feb 2019 issue of KROnline. “Once, I didn’t know what it was like to feel safe. That is, I had generally […]
February 4, 2019
Associate Spotlight: Taylor Hazan ’19
Taylor Hazan ’19 is an English and anthropology double major from Charlotte, North Carolina. An athlete and a long-time student employee of the Kenyon College Library, Taylor has a lot […]