November 17, 2016
Introductory Paragraphs
While working at Powell’s Books, I had a routine. I would pull a story or essay collection from the literature shelves, read the first few paragraphs of every piece in […]
April 13, 2012
Craft Note: Duet — Part One (Beginning With A Line by Mark Irwin)
What / you’re looking through is the act of giving, writes Mark Irwin in his “Poem Beginning with a Line by Milosz.” I wrote about this poem, briefly, several months […]
March 14, 2012
Daylight Savings & The Movable Dawn: A Postscript on the Aubade
About as soon as I posted my dialogue with her on the aubade, Tarfia sent me a link to Kenyon Review Writers Workshop faculty member Carl Phillips’ own “Aubade: Some […]