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 […]
August 30, 2018
Present in Process: An Interview with Caryl Pagel
Caryl Pagel’s vision has shaped not only her own poems, essays, books, and chapbooks, but two presses, a literary magazine, and now a new literary fellowship focused on inclusion, equity, […]
April 7, 2018
Putting Together Your First Poetry Book
So you’ve decided you’re ready to take your onslaught of poems and form them into your very first poetry book. This is an exciting time, and I hope I can […]
June 12, 2017
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Publishing* But Were Afraid to Ask
To writers, editors and agents are like unicorns, magical beasts that hold the key to the publishing kingdom. My writer friends and I spend so much time speculating about these […]
November 15, 2016
Failing to Sell My First Book
Between my retail day job, my social life and hustling for freelance writing gigs, it took a full year to write my first nonfiction book proposal. It was sixty-eight pages […]
November 20, 2015
Who Only Has at Heart Your Getting Lost: Wandering Into Poetry
Even for those of us who don’t have to be convinced to read poetry in the first place, it can be a challenge to “keep up” with poetry. If you’re reading […]
July 31, 2015
Not an Elegy for The University of Akron Press
We are still writing and revising the fate of The University of Akron Press. I say “we,” since the voices that matter to me are the voices of the poets, editors, […]
August 16, 2013
The Anthology Blues, or, A Very Modest Proposal
It’s like the long-delayed return of a plague we were sure had taken its last victims: the debate over the Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry has risen, zombie-like. Just […]
June 6, 2012
The Dorothy project: An interview with Danielle Dutton
Just out today on the Kenyon Review Online is Elaine Bleakney’s review of two novels by Renee Gladman, Event Factory and The Ravickians. Both novels were published by Dorothy, a […]
March 29, 2012
A year in translation
I’m late to point this out, but throughout March the always rich international-lit blog Three Percent has been running its “25 Days of the BTBA” series, in which it highlights […]