There is an element in art that resists politicization. This is true, I think, even if we accept the notion…
You Still Have One More Day…
…to submit writing to be considered for Annalemma’s “Holiday in Cambodia” anthology. The deadline is tomorrow, January 15th. This anthology…
Guest Post – Ethel Rohan – What Does Writing Mean to You?
An excerpt from the epilogue to Noah Lukeman’s THE FIRST FIVE PAGES: The answer, ultimately, to getting published is how…
I Used to be Intelligent… Kinda… I think
Yesterday I was thinking about how smart I used to feel. When I was young. Okay, I’m not so old…
Big Other Reading Series #2
Check out Mel Bosworth reading an excerpt from Ann Rushton’s novel-in-progress.
“Let us remember…that in the end we go to poetry for one reason…”
I firmly believe that poetry serves a range of cultural functions and I tend to bristle when someone says otherwise.…
Making Contact
I’m with Mr. Yagoda on this one. My readers, too, are silly to think they have something to say worthy…
I Sing the Bio Electric
I sing the bio electric; The credits of poems I’ve published engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not…
#$%!
I love it when a literary journal that prides itself on publishing innovative fiction rejects my work by pointing out…
Charles Burns’s Hubris
Anyone who has even looked at a page or two of Black Hole understands that if someone has earned the…