May 24, 2019
An Artist’s Life: An Interview with Marcia Butler, author of Pickle’s Progress
Marcia Butler’s debut novel, Pickle’s Progress, has been hailed by Michael Schaub of NPR as “Surprising and audacious…. Pickle’s Progress is a deeply weird novel that succeeds because of Butler’s willingness […]
May 15, 2019
Lynda Barry & Matt Groening on the Power of Creativity
I recently had the pleasure of seeing Lynda Barry and Matt Groening in conversation at Cuyahoga County Public Library’s William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series. Among other things, Barry […]
July 10, 2012
Creative Exigency, Exhilaration, Exhaustion, and Expansion: A Postscript on the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops
I’ll say it: I’m exhausted. I spent 22 days in Gambier, Ohio, first as faculty for the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and then for the KR Young Writers Workshop, in […]
March 29, 2012
Mix Tape: “Whatever happens, this is.”
Here’s to Adrienne Rich, who said: “I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have […]