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Mon May 14 2012 God's Party Town by Bayo Ojikutu November 3rd, 2008: We live in the epicenter of Last Best Hope Land. Just over one mile from the Read more...	Wed Apr 25 2012 Returning the World to the Workshop: Using Theme by Valerie Miner This is the last in a series of four essays adapted for TriQuarterly Online from the panel “On Read more...	Mon Apr 23 2012 Reinvigorating the Creative Writing Workshop Using Blogs by Anne Panning This is the third in a series of four essays adapted for TriQuarterly Online from the panel “On Read more...
Wed Apr 18 2012 Workshop Alternatives by Robin Hemley This is the second in a series of four essays adapted for TriQuarterly Online from the panel “On Read more...	Mon Apr 16 2012 Catching One’s Breath: Longevity, Endurance, Interval Training, and the Hypoxic Workshop by Michael Martone This is the first in a series of four essays adapted for TriQuarterly Online from the panel “On Read more...	Mon Apr 9 2012 The Multiple Selves Within: Crafting Narrative Personae in Literary Memoir by Michael Steinberg This is the last in a series of three nonfiction craft essays adapted for TriQuarterly Online from Read more...
Wed Apr 4 2012 Who Will Tell My Story? by Mimi Schwartz This is the second in a series of three nonfiction craft essays adapted for TriQuarterly Online Read more...	Mon Apr 2 2012 The Made-Up Self by Phillip Lopate This is the first in a series of three nonfiction craft essays adapted for TriQuarterly Online from Read more...	Mon Mar 12 2012 Paper Chains and Lace: Lessons on Linked Stories from Love Medicine by Dylan Landis I linked my own book of stories by accident. I began with a girl named Leah, age eleven. It was my Read more...

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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.

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.

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.

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