September 26, 2016
Ballads of Bottles and Blades
The ballad is a form that can easily sound antiquated and sing-song on the page. This is, of course, because “sing-song” isn’t a negative descriptor when describing actual song, and […]
March 25, 2016
Vocabulary Lesson
What’s the relationship between being able to appreciate something and being able to speak about it? Last month I saw a performance—Black Girl: Linguistic Play, by Camille A. Brown’s dance […]
July 20, 2010
The Sewanee Writers’ Conference, at the Midpoint
A few days ago, in his Sewanee Writers’ Conference craft talk, Richard Bausch said, “A writer is a bookish person.” (He also praised the value of exposition — reversing the […]