Happy birthday, Edward Albee! Here are some quotes from his plays, interviews, etc. Do you know what a playwright is?…
The Road Is a Shot Glass Half-Full, by Grace Campbell
Windows lap up the rust belt, entire counties at a time. Gram’s in the seat next to me, working…
There Is No World Without Women
Every day is International Women’s Day! Happy International Women’s Day! There is no world without women, and there is no…
“Space is a doubt…”
Happy birthday, Georges Perec! Here are some words from his writing. “To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to…
Two Essays, by Gabriel Blackwell
Discipline After a friend’s suicide, Tōson Shimazaki quit his job—teaching—in order to move to the country in order to live…
How a Poem Happens to Happen, by Brendan Lorber
You’re making a poem. But are you making the poem happen? A certain uncertainty surrounds us as we write,…