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  • John Madera

    • What’s the quickest you have ever created a piece you considered finished (a notorious word, so let’s say published, recorded, performed, painted and dried–uh, abandoned.)? Fourteen minutes, fourteen days, fourteen years?

    “The poem came whole and I changed no word. I sent it to the Atlantic Monthly at once.”   Richard Eberhart

    “It took me 13 years from notebook to finished poem.” Louis Simpson

    And you?

    • John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024) and Nomad Science (Spuyten Duyvil Press, forthcoming in 2026).  His  fiction is also published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, Hobart, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His poetry is also published in elimae, Sixth Finch, Contrapuntos, and elsewhere. His criticism is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, two-time New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.

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