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Views

  • God's Party Town

    Those flaxen evangelicals, imbued with their holy ghost or some such helter-skelter mania, were surely not from Chicago, not of Sweet Home—bused in from Kansas, perchance?

  • Returning the World to the Workshop: Using Theme

    The reasons for my discomfort became clear one September afternoon at the Minnesota State Fair pig judging contest. 

  • Reinvigorating the Creative Writing Workshop Using Blogs

    As one student put it: “Too much liberty for me is death.”

  • Workshop Alternatives

    In one fell swoop, this eliminates almost all the problems I’ve encountered in typical workshops.

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Interviews

  • Susie Bright: Interview

    Big Sex Little Death focuses most of its pages on Bright’s complicated and sometimes painful history.

  • Ian Heames: Interview

    Ian Heames began printmaking in a sub-basement several floors beneath a library at Oxford.

  • Brooklyn Copeland: Interview

    I started writing poetry as a freshman in high school. I would buy blank notebooks as souvenirs because I found the idea of a bunch of blank pages really appealing.

  • Linda McCarriston: Interview

    According to Linda McCarriston, poetry exists for reasons beyond displays of linguistic or lyrical talent.

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Reviews

  • Half in Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate by Judith Kitchen

    Over the course of ten years, Kitchen has jotted notes about photos she found in her family’s scrapbook. She has now collected her writings into a cohesive work accompanied by approximately seventy images.

  • Water Puppets by Quan Barry

    There is a journalistic objectivity to Quan Barry’s new collection of poems, Water Puppets. The poems linger on scenes of profound violence and inhumanity, reporting heavy truths of war, massacre, and disaster.

  • Neighborhood Register by Marcus Jackson

    In Neighborhood Register, Marcus Jackson eloquently establishes a time and place: the American Rust Belt of his adolescence during the late twentieth century.

  • Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life and Work of a 20th Century Master

    Tamura’s work relentlessly pulls us into highly charged and disturbing themes of violence, culpability, and survival.

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Blog Posts

  • Drinkers with a Writing Problem
    May 9, 2012
  • An Eye for an Eye Leaves Everyone Blind
    Apr 30, 2012
  • Flash-Circuit
    Apr 26, 2012
  • Books, Brains, Baboons, Buddhism and Barry White.
    Apr 23, 2012

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