September 3, 2018
Writing Is Thinking
Years ago, one of my writing acquaintances (we’ll call her B.) was working on her first novel when she received a suggestion from her instructor to be more specific about […]
May 21, 2018
A Writer’s Capacity for Selfishness
During my time in the MFA, I met a woman a few years younger than me at the bar after a reading. She was also a writer, but not in […]
February 14, 2018
On Being an “Annoying Poet Girl” and “Art Monster”
As you might imagine, there was a comical symmetry when I, an often irritating female poet, watched the movie Adult World about . . . an often irritating female poet. […]
January 30, 2015
The Art of Losing
Recently, I exhibited a collaborative sculpture with a few of my young students in a show about the human relationship to landscape, as inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s essay “The Postmodern […]
April 24, 2012
Infinite Book: Kevin Young’s The Grey Album
For lots of us, certain weird and meandering nonfiction books become crucial touchstones. These are the books which don’t, say, teach us about the guy who deciphered Linear B or […]