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Writing Lessons: Judith Conte
In our Writing Lessons series, writing students will discuss lessons learned, epiphanies about craft, and the challenges of studying writing. This week, we hear from Judith Conte, a student at the 2013...
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A World of My Own
When I was a kid, I would spend hours drawing maps of fictional towns. Sometimes, it would start with a river running down the page; other times, a mountain. Each street I added carried a name....
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The Newest Big Thing From Latin America
Every once in awhile a book comes across my desk that I read and can’t believe hasn’t blown up bigger already. Jennifer Clement’s Prayers for the Stolen is the thing I’m big on right now, a novel about...
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“An Essay Needs to be about Exploring”: An Interview with Angela Pelster
Angela Pelster is the author of Limber (Sarabande Books, 2014), for which she won the Great Lakes College Association New Writer Award. This book was first described to me as a “collection of essays...
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Harold Bloom’s Song of Self
Here’s the story of my first and only encounter with Harold Bloom. It was the first week of a new semester, my last semester of graduate school, and I was waiting in a stuffy seminar room packed with...
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A White Man Used An Asian Woman’s Name To Publish A Poem. Does That Change...
By now you’ve probably read about the 2015 Best American Poetry scandal. For the uninitiated, the story goes like this: the anthology comes out with a contributor note by the editor, Sherman Alexie,...
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Throwback Book Thursday: BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER by Herman Melville
Throwback Book Thursday is a series that highlights classic texts commonly assigned to students that should absolutely be revisited and savored once you’re an adult. This month’s selection is...
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Lilies in the Yard: On Getting Away
Photo by James Bernal I reread Sylvia Plath this summer on a fairly remote island off Ireland’s Connemara coast. Plath had been there once—just for the day—in September of 1962. She and Ted Hughes...
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The Dark Side of the Wild
Several years ago, I found myself among those assembled to hear Gary Snyder weave questions of nature, the natural world, the wilderness, and the wild with poetry. Of all things Snyder said that...
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The Fancy and Imagination of Herman Melville
In his 1817 text Biographia Literaria, Samuel Coleridge describes the act of creative association as an interplay between sensual experience and language. He writes, “Seeing a mackerel, it may happen,...
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Herman Melville and the Desolation of Solitude
In an episode of his podcast Into the Zone, author Hari Kunzru goes with fellow author Geoff Dyer to visit the home of one of their shared literary idols. On the car ride there, Dyer asks Kunzru how...
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Writing Lessons: Judith Conte
In our Writing Lessons series, writing students will discuss lessons learned, epiphanies about craft, and the challenges of studying writing. This week, we hear from Judith Conte, a student at the...
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