Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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October 14, 2015

Elitism and American Poetry

By Amit Majmudar

  The question of “the audience of poetry” is one that vexes poets and critics endlessly in our country. There are, on this as on so many other issues, two camps, […]

January 11, 2012

Short Takes: For Those About to Write

By Andrew David King

In a Letter to the Editor printed in a 1984 edition of Amherst College’s student newspaper, the Amherst Student, David Foster Wallace (then just “Dave Wallace ‘85”) takes on an […]